Food and Dining
This staple food likely contributed to dental issues in local populations.
What is bread?
This wealthy woman was leasing out elegant baths for respectable people, shops with upper rooms, and apartments.
Who was Julia Felix?
A structure that utilised gravity to transport spring water to local populations.
What is an aqueduct?
Paul Mescal and Russell Crowe have both played this famous style of fighter.
What is a gladiator?
Two materials used to make clothes in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
What are wool and linen?
This sweet fruit was imported to Campania from the Egyptian food bowl.
What are dates?
Inspired by Greek architecture, this colonnade encloses a courtyard in a domus.
What is a peristyle?
A square gap in the atrium ceiling that allowed the wealthy to collect rainwater directly in their homes.
What is a compluvium?
A location that hosted circus shows, animals hunts, and numerous types of battles for an audience of 12,000+ people.
What is the Amphitheatre of Pompeii?
The garment worn by all men in the Roman Empire.
What is a tunic?
This controversial bone was found in the settling basin of Drain 17 in Porta Stabia.
What is a juvenile giraffe femur?
A drain pool to collect water in the atrium of a domus.
What is an impluvium?
A location where water was stored before making its way to public baths, latrines, cisterns and public fountains.
What is a castellum (reservoir)?
The class of person who financed the arts.
What are patrons?
A workshop where clothing was laundered.
What is a fullonica/fullery?
In Herculaneum men ate more _______ than women, who obtained more of their dietary proteins from ________________.
What are seafood and terrestrial animal products?
A study attached to the atrium where visitors were received.
What is a tablinium?
"Marcus Alficius Paulus, aedile: anyone who wants to throw excrement in this place is warned that it is not allowed. If someone shall denounce this action, freeborn will ______, and slaves will be punished by _______.’
What is "pay a fine of denarii" and "lashes"?
An intimate venue also referred to as the 'small theatre.'
What is the Odeon?
A safety pin-style clasp that fastened a woman's stola.
What is a fibula?
A gathering featuring a banquet or feast.
What is a convivium?
Building with a vestibulum featuring a mosaic warning visitors to CAVE CANEM.
What is the House of the Tragic Poet?
The hot, warm, and cold chambers at the baths, respectively.
What is a caldarium, tepidarium, and frigidarium?
According to CIL IV 4289, this fighter was "the delight of all the girls."
Who was Celadus the Thracian gladiator?
A formal garment worn by magistrates and trimmed in purple.
What is a toga praetexta?