Mungil's House With Complicated Wall Painting Found In The Ancient City Of Pompeii

A tiny house in Pompeii with complicated walls. (Source: Archaeological Park of Pompeii)

JAKARTA - The team of archaeologists managed to find a tiny house in Pompeii, Italy filled with complicated wall paintings' and sometimes erotic which shows how Roman people decorate their homes with decorations.

Located in the ancient city's central district, the house is smaller than usual and has no open midfield known as atrium which is a hallmark of Roman architecture, according to a statement from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, which oversees the site late last month, quoted by CNN November 13.

This change can occur due to a shift in trends in the Roman community - and especially the Pompeian people - during the first century AD, archaeologists said.

One small square painting mounted on a blue-painted wall depicts the relationship between satir andnimfa, while the other showstenlytus, the son of mystical Greek king Theseeus, and his stepmother Phaedra who fell in love with her before committing suicide when she rejected it.

One wall painting likely depicts Paris' death, although it has been damaged by previous excavations, and others show Venus, the goddess of love and Adonis her mortal lover.

An erotic and complicated wall painting like this has been found in Pompeii before. A house filled with erotic wall paintings reopened to the public in January 2023 after being closed for 20 years while another wall painting depicting erotic scenes from Greek myths "Leda and Angsa" was discovered in 2018.

Elsewhere in this newly excavated house, the final ritual offerings left before the eruption were still left in the household temple, known as the larianium.

"We have archaeologists, collectors, archaeologists here to understand exactly how the ritual of the last sacrifice was done before the eruption," Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the park, said in a statement.

"There are still remains of this burning ritual, there is a knife used," he added.

This excavation, Zuchtriegel added, was "imposed under public scrutiny" that could access the site via a trail that was hung and watching archaeologists working.

It is known that Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of MountATAN in 79 AD, when its buildings and thousands of residents were buried under a layer of ash and floating stones. This layer perfectly preserved the city for thousands of years, making it one of the most important archaeological sites in the world because it offers unprecedented insight into Roman daily life.