Yeah, there were a couple of place at least where bread was preserved, still in the ovens. Modestus was the baker’s name on the larger, better known bakery. :’)
Didn’t Romans save their urine in jars to sell to `dry cleaners’? Series. Some of that stuff survived.
And a lot of the surviving Pompeii graffiti advertising prostitutes, random scatology and personal invective is pretty vivid stuff.
Pliny recorded Vesuvius’ rumblings for quite some time so
you would think they would have vacated the premises w/ their Buggus Outtus Bagguses.
Bakery of Sotericus
http://www.ermaktravel.org/Europe/Italy/Pompeii/bakery_sotericus.html
A wine shop sign, Pompeii. Credit: Werner Forman/UIG/Getty [can’t post image]
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02475/numbers-bottles_2475047c.jpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/pompeii/9852462/Pompeii-exhibition-a-history-of-Pompeii-and-Herculaneum-in-numbers.html
