Pompeii

Pompeii

A Cornice from Pompeii

a piece of plastered and painted architectural ornament with a flower and shell motif painted in red, blue, and green
Some architectural terracotta moulding from the House of the Black Room, Pompeii c/o BBC

There are many things to talk about the excavations at the House of the Black Room in Pompeii, from the awesome Parthian Perseus to the poor bakery workers who may have been locked in their quarters to die when the volcano erupted. Onetime Bookandswordblog commentator Sophie Hay gets to work there! One thing which I like is this piece of terracotta architectural decoration with painting which is colourful but not fussily precise.

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