THE DISCOVERY OF SLAVE ROOM

 At a Pompeii home, a slave room was uncovered.

Slave rooms have been discovered by archaeologists excavating at Pompeii's Civita Giuliana.

THE DISCOVERY OF SLAVE ROOM

Pompeii was a Roman city in the Campania region of Italy, located in the present municipality of Pompeii near Naples. During the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and numerous villas in the surrounding area were buried by 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 feet) of volcanic ash and pumice.

Previous digs revealed many apartments, a servant's quarters, and a ceremonial carriage and stable with harnessed horses at Civita Giuliana's villa, which has been investigated since 2017.

Archaeologists discovered a room near where the chariot was discovered, believed to be the humble lodgings of the slaves who carried out the everyday work in the Roman villa, including maintenance and preparation of the chariot, during the most recent series of excavations by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, in collaboration with the Public Prosecutor's Office of Torre Annunziata.

Researchers detected beds composed of coarsely crafted wooden planks with rope webbed bottoms that are evident entombed in cinerite from the eruption using plaster casts of cavities inside the room. A chariot shaft, remnants of fabric blankets on the beds, and other personal artifacts like as eight amphorae, ceramic jugs, and a chamber pot are also preserved in cinerite.

“Archaeology helps us to discover an aspect of the ancient world about which we would otherwise know nothing, but which is nonetheless tremendously important,” said Director General Gabriel Zuchtriegel. The tight and perilous aspect of this room, which was somewhere between a dormitory and a store room of just 16 sqm and which we can now reconstruct because to the amazing condition of preservation generated by the eruption of AD 79, is what stands out the most."

"Even without the presence of great 'treasures,' it is undoubtedly one of the most exciting discoveries of my career as an archaeologist – the true treasure here is the human experience, in this case of the most vulnerable members of ancient society, to which this room is a unique testimony," added Zuchtriegel.

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