Fun video. Generally it is a toilet under the stairs. And the rooms in the front are either shops if they open onto the street, or maybe a business, but unlikely to be servants quarters since this would be the first room guests would see. And the old pipes coming down from the second floor are usually also coming from toilets into a cesspit. Fresh water came from aqueducts.
Oh, that’s very interesting about the toilet, I thought they only had public toilets but it makes sense the rich folks would have em. I know about the shops but I always thought those first small rooms were for servants. If not them what or who would be in there?
If you get a guide book, they will likely say what they think the use was for each room. Archeologists love to make guesses and then disagree with each other. But Roman’s were very consistent in their housing designs, so they actually know pretty well.
The basilica was, in Roman times, not a church. They were public buildings where the business/government of the town was conducted. That style of building was taken over by the Christian Church as good worship buildings. That's why Roman Catholic Churches are called basilicas.
Excellent Trip To Herculaneum.
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Fun video. Generally it is a toilet under the stairs. And the rooms in the front are either shops if they open onto the street, or maybe a business, but unlikely to be servants quarters since this would be the first room guests would see. And the old pipes coming down from the second floor are usually also coming from toilets into a cesspit. Fresh water came from aqueducts.
Oh, that’s very interesting about the toilet, I thought they only had public toilets but it makes sense the rich folks would have em.
I know about the shops but I always thought those first small rooms were for servants. If not them what or who would be in there?
If you get a guide book, they will likely say what they think the use was for each room. Archeologists love to make guesses and then disagree with each other. But Roman’s were very consistent in their housing designs, so they actually know pretty well.
The basilica was, in Roman times, not a church. They were public buildings where the business/government of the town was conducted.
That style of building was taken over by the Christian Church as good worship buildings.
That's why Roman Catholic Churches are called basilicas.
Ahh interesting!
not servants.... slaves