A fresco depicting a fuller (In effect: Washer) working.
I hope that no children are reading this blog as it coulg get nasty today. Yes there is such a thing as the secret room in the National Museum at Naples with all the dirty Roman art. This one is from a peristyle (garden surrounded by columns)
A lararium, home altar to the familiar gods and spirits. Notice the graffiti on it saying CACATOR CAVE MALUM, meaning something like "It is bad/you are warned, do not shit here".
A now epic piece, the jumping pig. I don't know exactly where it comes from but it's around Herculaneum, probably Villa dei Papyri.
One of the absolutely latest finds in Herculaneum, excavated as recently as 2 months ago!
A Roman bath in Puteoli, the only one we know of that resembles the imperial Thermas or Rome.
A lead filter in the great cistern of Puteoli.
Another rather striking piece of decoration.
And as a last picture, the - thanks to HBO Rome - now very famous mosaic from Pompeii.
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