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Economy of Pompeii
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Work?
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Atrium (VII.1.46)
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Types of Economic Activity AGRICULTURE,Craft and Commerce, Shops and Markets, Bars and Inns
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Evidence Preserved buildings and their contents Inscriptions Images Ancient Literary sources Analogies with later societies
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Port Nola, Nuceria and Acherrae have as their port Pompeii on the River Sarno, which transports goods in both directions. (Strabo, Geography 5.4.8) River or Sea?
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North of Marine Gate (Mooring blocks for ships???)
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Fertility of Campania Of everything, not just in Italy, but in the whole world, the region of Campania is the most beautiful. Nothing more temperate than its climate: indeed, its spring flowers blossom twice. Nothing is more fertile than its land: consequently there is said to be a competition between Liber and Ceres. (Florus, Epitome 1.16)
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Farming 140+ villas
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Missing evidence- grain cultivation on small farms/
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Vesuvius
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Wine For around Vesuvius is the Murgentine vine, a very strong species from Sicily which some call Pompeian, productive only in fertile soil, like the Horconian variety, which is grown only in Campania. (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 14.35)
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Villa Pisanella (Boscoreale) (1876-99) 130x 82 ft.
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Boscoreale ( Villa Pisanella) 72 +Dolia (12 for other uses) Cella vinaria Fermentation=9 days to many years.
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Paintings
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Boscoreale Treasure 108 silver vessels and 1,037 gold coins
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62 acres /24,000 gallons
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Villa Regina at Boscoreale (1978-80)
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2.5-5 acres/2,600 gallons
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80 species of plants(olive,almond, fig, apricot, cherry, walnut)
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Villa of the Mysteries
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Wine Press
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Torcularium
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Amphorae Spain, Italy, Gaul, Switzerland, Germany, England, Tunisia (Holconii/Eumachii)
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Olive oil
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Wilhemina Jashemsky 10% of town=cultivation
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Agriculture Within the town Reg. II.5 ( Forum Boarium?) 2,014 vine root cavities/ 58 trees/ wine press Triclinia
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Flowers (Regions I and II) Orchard ( Region I)
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House of the Ship Europa, (I.15.3)Market Garden 90x 180 ft. Vines, Fruit and nut trees
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Kitchen garden
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House of the Sarno Lararium Onions
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