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This house, with its classical layout around an atrium and a peristyle, belonged to the banker of Pompeii, and his entire archives consisting of 154 waxed writing tablets dating between 53 and 62 A.D. were found intact. These consisted of sale contract for land, animal or slaves and receipts for the payment of colonial taxes, as L.C. Jucundus was also the official tax collector.
The bronze portrait – commissioned by the freedman Felix – found in the tablinum of the house gives us a clear image of what his father looked like. In this house, researchers found two marble bas-reliefs (both subsequently stolen). One of them depicts the Temple of Jupiter which whose d ... continue

(Apic. 9, 6) Ingredients:

• 3-4 oysters per person
• pinch of pepper
• pinch of ground lovage (or a large pinch of chopped celery leaves)
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• 1 tbsp white wine
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp honey

Instructions:
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Buy fresh oysters in their shells and open these carefully with an oyster knife as close as possible to the time of eating. Depending on your preference the oysters can be served raw or steamed or grilled in their she ... 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.