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6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2012

From the guidebook:

A Roman household would have used the courtyard for exercise and conversation. Flowers and culinary herbs may have been grown there. The surrounding portico provided shelter from the weather, both for the family and also for servants and slaves, who could have used it as covered workspace.

6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2012