#roman women
Woman with wax tablets and stylus
- Pompeii
- Regio 6, Insula Occidentalis
- 50-79 CE
- MANN
source: ho visto nina volare from Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Emily Hauser: Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called “Sappho”). Pompeii, Italy. 50-79 CE.
A medallion painting from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus in Pompeii, Italy, executed in the Second Style
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Messages between two Pompeians named Severus and Successus, and between them a girl named Iris. A story etched forever in graffiti. Found in a Thermopolium (Inn)
( I.10.2-3 Thermopolium of Prima)
Successus, a weaver, loves the innkeeper’s slave girl named Iris. She, however, does not love him. Still, he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye [Severus]
Envious one, why do you get in the way. Submit to a handsomer man and one who is being treated very wrongly and good looking. [Answer by Successus]
I have spoken. I have written all there is to say. You love Iris, but she does not love you. [Answer by Severus]
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Ancient Rome had an impressive variety of hairstyles which increased as the empire got older. While during the late times of the Republic and in first centuries of the Empire the hairstyles were more or less simple; in later times they became more and more complicated, high above a woman’s head, with many layers, hairpins, often an enormous amount of curls, and other additions. Read more
Painting: Bellezza Pompeiana by John William Godward (1909)
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