Taylor Family Vacation - May 21, 1998

	Exploring Pompeii #2
Click on the small picture to see a larger one.	May 21, 1998	Today we travelled to Paris, so here's more pictures of Pompeii!
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	This is an example of the many paintings that adorned the homes of Pompeii. It shows Hercules, as a child, wrestling with a snake. There are many colorful paintings preserved on the walls of homes, some professional, others "home made."
	Here is the interior garden area of a villa. Behind the columns are hallways leading to private rooms. It's obvious that this home belonged to one of the richer residents of Pompeii, but this was generally a fairly well-off community 2000 years ago.
	There are so many columns adorning homes and buildings in Pompeii, I knew they couldn't all be solid marble, such as those on Greek temples. This shows how they build columns with bricks, then simulate stone exterior with cement.
	Michael chased a gecko down one of the streets, and points to the hole where he/she is hiding.
	This hole through the top and out the side of the curb was used to tie up animals. It would be similar in use to the hitching post seen on western TV shows.
	This is one of the many bakeries found in Pompeii. The oven is in the background. In the foreground is a cone-shaped stone, capped with a matched stone, which, when turned, crushes grain (poured in the top) into flour (out the bottom).
	This shows that Pompeii had been around for quite a few years before the eruption that buried and hid it from the world for nearly 1700 years. Look at the wheel ruts made in the stone road around this corner.