ARTH 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ptolemaic Kingdom, Tepidarium, Gladiator
12 Apr 2017
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Perfect teeth - absent of cavities - healthy diet. Excavated abundance way , the main street in the commercial district. Pumice holding it up for years but once that is removed things get risky. Repair to parts damaged by earthquakes (and tourists) Stratigraphic work in parts where early excavations were. Buried mostly by hot mud and lava - much harder material. The bodies were at the boathouses near the shore. Discoverd by a man that was digging a well. Decoration is a little different - style 4. Full of free men whose job is was to see through the cult duties. Build and dedicated by aulus lucius proculus and aulus lucius. Dedicated to the decurions (local senate) and the augustales. Came up with an early plan in the 1700 to know where the rooms were. Get an idea of what the villa would have looked like. Gold and silver foil on the back of glass.
