I love that two small mice were found in a jar. Sad for the mice, but it's such a normal slice of life.
At home I sometimes find a dead spider fallen and trapped in a drinking glass. Since moving to the countryside, mice in winter have become a reality. Recently for kitchen repairs, I found several dead ones that had fallen into the cavity around our range hood, which was built apparently once, not made to be opened. Here I am, two thousand years later, experiencing in my kitchen something similar to those Romans in their wardrobe.
This is quite a detailed article, but as an Italian I feel one of the linked articles has a more evocative title: "the wardrobe of a woman who never came back".
As an aside, I got sniped into finding out why this insula is called "insula of the chaste lovers", given Pompei is quite known for sexual imagery. It's apparently because there's a house called ".. of the chaste lovers" because of a fresco where two lovers share an apparently chaste kiss
What does the following mean - are they saying that, respecting this law, the property found should be used for the benefit of Pompeii today? (From callahad's link [0].)
> Both the report and the Park’s press release invoke Tacitus and the rules for property left without heirs. The report adds that this reference needs philological and legal-historical study before it is tied to the owners of this house. The measure I could trace is in Suetonius, Life of Titus 8.4, which assigns the property of those who died at Vesuvius without heirs to restoring the buried towns.
'Restoring the buried towns' - what a wonderful idea, that Pompeii's treasures were, and by tradition and respect today are, used for the benefit of the site!
The press release, Google-Translate-d, has only speculation about what happened to the residents:
> But perhaps they didn't make it, and they could be among those who, as the historian Tacitus recalls, died without an heir, and whose assets were supposedly used for the refoundation of Pompeii, which ultimately never materialized.
...which is considerably less romantic than the thought that the artifacts and property would have have the ancient law respected today.
I love that two small mice were found in a jar. Sad for the mice, but it's such a normal slice of life.
At home I sometimes find a dead spider fallen and trapped in a drinking glass. Since moving to the countryside, mice in winter have become a reality. Recently for kitchen repairs, I found several dead ones that had fallen into the cavity around our range hood, which was built apparently once, not made to be opened. Here I am, two thousand years later, experiencing in my kitchen something similar to those Romans in their wardrobe.
Looks like similar coverage is available at https://www.ancientcontent.com/p/the-wardrobe-in-house-ix-11, which also has links to some primary sources (in Italian) at the bottom of the page.
This is quite a detailed article, but as an Italian I feel one of the linked articles has a more evocative title: "the wardrobe of a woman who never came back".
As an aside, I got sniped into finding out why this insula is called "insula of the chaste lovers", given Pompei is quite known for sexual imagery. It's apparently because there's a house called ".. of the chaste lovers" because of a fresco where two lovers share an apparently chaste kiss
https://mediterraneoantico.it/articoli/archeologia-classica/...
What does the following mean - are they saying that, respecting this law, the property found should be used for the benefit of Pompeii today? (From callahad's link [0].)
> Both the report and the Park’s press release invoke Tacitus and the rules for property left without heirs. The report adds that this reference needs philological and legal-historical study before it is tied to the owners of this house. The measure I could trace is in Suetonius, Life of Titus 8.4, which assigns the property of those who died at Vesuvius without heirs to restoring the buried towns.
'Restoring the buried towns' - what a wonderful idea, that Pompeii's treasures were, and by tradition and respect today are, used for the benefit of the site!
The press release, Google-Translate-d, has only speculation about what happened to the residents:
> But perhaps they didn't make it, and they could be among those who, as the historian Tacitus recalls, died without an heir, and whose assets were supposedly used for the refoundation of Pompeii, which ultimately never materialized.
...which is considerably less romantic than the thought that the artifacts and property would have have the ancient law respected today.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50304156
So that was a mouse in your pocket, you weren't just glad to see me.
It really says something that a 404 can get to the front page in 20 minutes.
Probably a good ol' HN hug of death given the root domain 403s now. It just broke in a slightly different way than normal.
It's more than a 404... going to the root of the domain welcomes you to the screen to install Wordpress.