"The oecus (banquet hall) is part of a large domus whose architectural style dates it to the middle of the 1st century B.C. It is 48 feet long and 20 feet wide, a huge room covering more than 950 square feet in area."
We will be shopping today, so there probably win't be too many opportunities for photography, so here's a few from 13 years ago today, 06/04/2011, in #pompeii#italy#italia#travelphotography#history
There's this building in Pompeii, around coordinates 40.7504, 14.4892 - if you search it on google street view you'll see something like this.
The portico paintings are beautiful, but when I was there the little sculpture on the wall caught my eye - and at the time, there was nothing covering it so I was able to make a good capture.
Electoral inscriptions discovered inside a house in Pompeii
Recent excavations along the Via di Nola in central Pompeii have unveiled electoral inscriptions inside a house, offering a glimpse into the politics of the time, a connection between politicians and bread, and the last rituals performed before the city’s devastation...
Far be it from us to suggest you visit Pompeii to go on an exploratory phallus-finding mission… but we certainly wouldn’t try to dissuade you either. Just look at that phallus framed by other phalluses! Must be good fortune 🥳
"An important marble relief depicting the earthquake of 62 A.D. that was stolen from Pompeii in 1975 has been found in affixed to the wall of a stairwell in a home in Herzele, Belgium. The strip of marble depicts the city in the grip of the earthquake, one of its gates capturing in the moment it sheers off the defensive walls and collapses."