Help Yourself
October 12, 2008
Paul 'Tuna' Turner posted a photo:
Karl weighs up a new career as an Ancient Roman shopkeeper.
If he wasn't a natural thief it might just work.
The Grande Taberna In Herculaneum was one of the town's Thermopolia, essentially a Roman fast food outlet.
The large ceramic jars in the counter would often be used to serve customers garum, a fish-based sauce believed to be an aphrodisiac.
Herculaneum (Ercolano) was the second town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. Not as famous as its near-neighbour Pompeii, the site is much smaller and more compact, but in parts better preserved by the ash and mud which swamped it.
The site is located just eight miles from Naples and is almost lost amid the run-down modern residential neighbourhood in which it is located. An exclusive residential settlement at the time of the eruption, the site contains many brilliantly preserved homes, shops and baths which were used by the approximate 5,000 residents.
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