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The world of ancient Romans abounded in a number of amazing curiosities and information. The source of knowledge about the life of the Romans are mainly works left to us by ancient writers or discoveries. The Romans left behind a lot of strange information and facts that are sometimes hard to believe.
Reconstruction of the Roman inkwell and the rilca (stilus). The writing instrument was based on a find from Vindolanda, a Roman camp located in Britain, between the rivers Tyne and Solway. The simplest Romans usually wrote on wooden tablets covered with wax. The wooden plates found in Vindolanda are considered the oldest handwriting in Britain.
Eunus was a Roman slave of Syrian origin who was the leader of the first slave uprising in Sicily (135-132 BCE). According to Florus’s message, Eunus swore to the Syrian deity Atargatis (which he compared to Greek Demeter) that he would free slaves from oppression.
Roman mosaic showing leopard. Object found in Woodchester (western England) Roman villa.
Roman marble sculpture showing Sappho – a Greek poet from the Lesbos. Object was found in Herculanum, in Villa of the Papyrii.
Roman patrician beds (lecti cubicidares) were located in the bedroom (cubiculum), usually in niches. They were high, so as needed a stool (scamnum) to climb them. The Roman going to sleep usually put his sandals on the footstool, which then faded under the mass of the cover (the stool was so fitted that it was under the bed).
