EditorialStrip of needle lace with vine leaves and bunches of grapes, Strip of natural colored needle lace: gentlemen-Alen?on. Repetitive motif of a bunch of grapes with a wine leaf on a fine hexagonal mesh with torn bars. Above that a spreading motif of small ...
EditorialThermopolium, a tavern of the 1st CE, Pompeii. There were 89 of these taverns or bars in Pompeii. Citizens went there before dinner, to have hot wine mixed with water, or a quick snack. Drinks and food were kept hot in the jars sunk into the counter.