The Street Food partially excavated in 2020/21 yielded the glass container, usually used in the Vesuvian area as a valuable element for decorating gardens and representative environments. However, in this environment the vase was reused as a kitchen container, the contents of which are still being defined. The new excavations started in 2023 in the Region V area of Pompeii, to improve the conservation conditions of the rooms adjacent to the Thermopolium, have brought to light the service rooms and the small apartment on the first floor where the company’s managers lived. In the ground floor room, together with the hob, mortars, pans and tools used to prepare food and numerous amphorae for wine of Mediterranean origin were still found.”We see in action here – explains director Gabriel Zuchtriegel – a certain creativity in furnishing sacred and profane spaces, that is to say the home altar and the kitchen, with objects that testify to the permeability and mobility of tastes, styles and probably also of religious ideas in the Roman Empire. And we see this phenomenon here not at an elite level, but in a back room of a popina, a street food in Pompeii, that is to say at a middle-low level of local society, which, however, turns out to be essential in the promotion of Eastern cultural and religious forms, including Egyptian sects, but later also Christianity”.
Situla Termoplio Region V
At the time of the eruption, the room next to the Thermopolium functioned as a service environment. Next to an entrance opening onto the so-called Vicolo dei Balconi was a small bathroom, while a room was intended for the storage of amphorae and other containers for storing liquids. The remaining space was occupied by objects used for processing, cooking and preserving food. One of the most interesting finds recovered is the richly decorated faience situla, which testifies to the commercial and cultural exchanges that characterized Pompeii. the floor above the service area was divided into two small rooms, one of which was frescoed and decorated in the 4th style, with illusionistic perspective architecture, furnished with furniture and personal objects kept in richly decorated wooden chests. The restoration of the wall and decorative elements revealed by previous interventions aimed to preserve their beauty and integrity.
To protect the spaces from the influence of weather and to adequately preserve the finds, special removable covers were created, designed to integrate harmoniously with the archaeological context. A lighting system allows you to better admire the context and accentuate the individual details.
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