(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 06 - A closet that was closed for two thousand years with all its set of dishes.
And then a bed, a small table, a trunk emptied and left open in the haste of the last few moments.
It is a middle-class house, 5 small rooms plus bathroom and kitchen overlooking a splendid painted garden, the last surprise of Pompeii that ANSA visits in preview.
Bare walls and modest furniture together with more precious and refined objects, an ensemble that tells the living conditions of a silent majority of the population in the Roman colony and at the same time offers a photograph once again at a high rate of emotion of the last hours of life of the city buried by eruption in 79 AD We are in Regio V in that wedge of land where the excavations of the Great Project took place.
The splendid painted lararium of the house was found in 2018.
"In the Roman Empire there was a large slice of the population that fought for their social status and for which the daily bread was anything but taken for granted - explains the director of the Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel - A vulnerable class during political crises and famines, but even with the ambition to climb the social ladder. A widespread reality but also poorly documented and told ", says director Zuchtriegel, according to which it is possible that the inhabitants of this house had the money to have the garden painted with the lararium but not enough to decorate the internal rooms. "Pompeii really does not cease to amaze", comments the minister of culture Franceschini, who speaks of "a beautiful story of redemption,