BUILDING OF EUMACHIA - POMPEII

On the eastern side of the Foro, there’s a majestic and elegant building with a marble frieze above the portal. Two inscriptions attribute this building to Eumachia, a priestess of Venus and owner of a flourishing business operating in the wool industry, which she had inherited from her husband. Indeed this is thought to be the seat of the Corporation of wool and cloth manufacturers, although another interpretation claim that the building was dedicated by the priestess to the Gens Iulia and was used for cult worship of the Emperor Augustus through the statues of his ancestor. The building itself dates from the Tiberian age and looks onto the Forum from a façade with two apses and four rectangular niches which housed statues. A large courtyard inside the building was surrounded by a two-storey colonnade with an apse that housed a statue of the Concordia Augusta on a podium. Behind the apse, was found the statue of Eumachia.

 

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A painting in the entrance, now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples, of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, sons of Jupiter and Leda, gives the house its name. This is one of the rare examples in Pompeii of a house with a Corinthian atrium, where the atrium with a central impluvium is surrounded by columns, in this case twelve columns in tufo (the other two alternatives were the Tuscan atrium without columns and the tetrastyle atrium with four columns at the corners of the impluvium). Wall paintings with pictures of mythological subjects were frescoed on the walls of the rooms on either side of the tablinum. Most of them have been detached and are now in the Archaeo ... continue

(Apic. 2, 4) Ingredients:

• 300 g minced meat (with fat)
• 100 g pine nuts
• Pepper
• Cumin
• Rue
• Parsley
• Savory
• Bay (or juniper) berries
• 2 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• Sausage casings

Instructions:
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Cut meat and fat into chunks and place in a bowl. Sprinkle with pepper, cumin, savory, juniper berries, and liquamen. Mix with hands so that all chunks are well-coated with spice mixture. ... continue

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.