The wine offering - Pompeii
by Weston Westmoreland
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The wine offering - Pompeii
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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The Wine Offering - Pompeii.
This is a fresco that remains in one of the buildings of the Roman city of Pompeii. The building served as a bar or tavern and the bar proper parted from the painting and advanced towards the point from which the picture was taken. The bartender would be to the right, the customer to the left.
On the bar, several orifices like the one we see under the painting served to get to the most usual products that were offered. The fresco depicts a classical composition of the Wine Offering ritual. This painting took the archaeologists to believe this store was actually a tavern. I did not find out what the snakes mean.
It is both easy and eerie to imagine a Roman citizen of the year 79 b.C. leaning on that bar by the fresco, chatting amiably with the bartender and drinking some wine, just before it was all covered in ashes and preserved until our times.
Pompeii. One of the best places in the world to travel in time.
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Weston Westmoreland.
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December 31st, 2014
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