FINDS IN POMPEII.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 270, 11 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

FINDS IN POMPEII.

AX EARLY ROMAN BAR. A wine-shop {tiacovened in exqavations in the Street erf Abundance at 'Pompeii may, according to a writer in the Temps., be regarded as nothing more or less than an early Roman bar. A long row of bronze and glass jars was found in perfect preservation, and contained various liquids, while a covered cauldron is still tilled with the water which was probably boiling at the destruction of the city in A.D. 7D. The ca;h till of the bar, made of ivory, has been found just as it was left by its panic-stricken owner, and contains a certain quantity of silver coins. The Temps quotes Cavalicre Boni, the Roman archaeologist who is investigating the excavation, as saying that the only thing wanting in this bar of the ancients U the barmaid. A terrible souvenir of the eruption was discovered in a superb palace, the owner of which has been identified as one Obel--1 ins. Firmus, a wealthy citizen of Pompeii. Before one of the gates were lying six bodies, those of Obellius Firmus himself, his wife, two little children, and two other persons, probably slaves. The children are lying in one another's arms as if embracing, while the parents have also crept together and clasped each other's hands. The authorities have decided not to remove the bodies to the museum, but to leave them where they are as evidence of the catastrophe.