Thermolopium or taberna near the fountain of Mercury, , Pompeii. A man cooks food at a stove, while a women serves a customer using scales. The walls are decorated with murals of the agathodemon snake and the goddess Fortune. Cured meats hang from the ceiling. Chromolithograph and illustration by Oscar Dressler from Antonio Niccolini’s Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restaurations), published by Zucchi & De Luca, Naples, 1898. Antonio was grandson of the architect Antonio Niccolini Sr.

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