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Daily Life in Ancient Rome

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Roman fullers cleaned cloth with water mixed with urine, potash, or natron while slaves, including children, trampled it.
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Pompeian bars hosted drinking, demands for more alcohol, dice games, kissing, and fights staff had to break up.
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Lucius Caecilius Iucundus left 153 wax tablets in Pompeii documenting banking and business from 15 to 62 AD.
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The Torlonia relief shows Portus as an industrial harbor packed with ships, complex rigging, a lighthouse, tugboat, and cargo.
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Pompeian carpenters processed with a shrine displaying craft symbols and patron figures including Minerva and Daedalus.
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The Capitoline carpenters' association maintained the roofing system of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.
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Roman fullers whitened cloth with fuller's earth before washing, pressing, drying, combing, and fumigating it with sulfur.
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Roman cities filled their streets with occupational and religious processions organized by trade associations, not just elite triumphs.
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Roman images documented specialized manual jobs including metalsmithing, copperworking, and cutting tesserae for mosaics.

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