A HO picture provided by Culture Ministry shows cots with poor mattresses, some sideboards that kept some work tools, some amphorae, baskets and vases kept in a sort of storage shelf and visited by the inevitable rodents, also surprised by the eruption. Pompeii is not only the mirror of the magnificence with which the rich traders who lived there surrounded themselves, the excavations and the new casts made on the remains found also shed light on the situation of precariousness and subordination experienced by those who made possible the life full of comforts of the rich landowners .
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