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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Old Babylonian erotic plaque showing a woman bending forward, drinking beer through a straw dipped into a jar, during sexual intercourse.
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Milk, semolina, honey, nuts and dried fruit, pepper and sometimes even garum: the apothermum is often presented today as a typical dessert of ancient Rome, supposedly enjoyed on leaving the baths.
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Celebrated on 11 October in the Roman world, the Meditrinalia are often regarded as a kind of grape harvest festival.
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Relief of the Maenads (from mainomai (μαίνομαι), “to be seized with madness, to rave”), Greece, late second century BCE, collection of the Martin Bodmer Foundation, Cologny-Geneva (Photo M.Grandjean) Chi…
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Small perfume or ointment flask in the shape of an acorn, in opaque white glass, first century CE.
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) The bakery of Modestus in Pompeii (photo MG).
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Saffron (Crocus sativus) in the Vienna Dioscorides, a sixth-century Byzantine manuscript of Dioscorides’s De materia medica.
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Olives, like those said to have made Thales’s fortune.
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Quince trees (Cydonia), painted garden of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, c. 30–20 BCE.
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Translated from French (please notify us of errors) Painting from the tomb of Menna, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1422–1411 BCE (Photo Wikimedia).
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Translated from french (please notify us of errors) Peaches and a glass pitcher, still life from Herculaneum, c. 50 CE.
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Translated from french (please notify us of errors) Passage from Dioscorides’ De materia medica concerning propolis.
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Translated from french (please notify us of errors) Gathering fallen olives.
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Translated from french (please notify us of errors) Stoichas (Lavandula stoechas) depicted in the manuscript known as the Vienna Dioscorides, Constantinople, c. 512, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. med. gr. 1, fol. 319v.
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Translated from french (please notify us of errors) Roman towns teemed with establishments selling food and drink.
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Translated from french (please notify us of errors) According to researcher Joan Tucker (University of Georgia, Athens, USA), a fresco painted in the lararium of a house in the I.xiv.6/7 district of Pompeii depicts several workers weighing baskets of onio…
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Translated from french (please notify us of errors) 13th-century copy of the De Numeris by Rabanus Maurus, a Benedictine monk born in Mainz around 780 (click to enlarge the image).