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(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 26 – Two ducks hanging by their legs, a rooster that seems to be painted in 3D, a dog on a leash with a graffiti of homophobic insult. The almost intact environment of a Thermopolium, a grocery store to which refined street food was added, with dishes of all kinds, from snails to a kind of “paella”, is back to light in Pompeii. A discovery, advances the director Osanna to ANSA, which “returns an incredible photograph of the day of the eruption”, and opens new studies on the life, uses and nutrition of Pompeians, “It will be an Easter gift for visitors”, she announces anticipating your intention to open it to visitors as soon as possible. While the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, applauds: “a team effort that is also a virtuous example for the recovery of the country.” The excavation is located in Regio V, on the corner between Vicolo dei Balconi and Via della Casa delle Nozze d’Argento, where the last consolidation works were carried out. On that occasion, the presence of the Thermopoly had been identified and a first part of the counter had been brought to light with a splendid painting with a mythological theme (A Nereid mounted on a hippocampus and carrying a zither) in addition to the balcony that adorned the upper floor. . The works of recent weeks have brought to the surface the entire richly decorated room and the vases with the remains of the dishes that Pompeians used to consume in the street. In Pompeii, these places were widespread, but none was preserved like that. And above all, Osanna explains, the excavations of the past have not been able to recover all the elements about food that emerged in this project, in which a multidisciplinary team of experts worked. The remains of two men and a dog were also found in the room. One of the victims, a man in his 50s, was lying on a bed at the back of the room and could have been crushed to death by the collapsed attic. The bones of the other, perhaps a fugitive who had come in search of food, were instead in a large vase, probably nailed there by excavators from the seventeenth century. (HANDLE).
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