The erotic frescoes in the House of the Centenary, and the mysterious Cubiculum 43 (Pompeii).T
The erotic frescoes in the House of the Centenary, and the mysterious Cubiculum 43 (Pompeii).The house received its name to mark the 18th centenary of the Vesuvius eruption, since it was discovered in 1879. Its owner was a pompeian politician named Tiberius Claudius Verus, so it is also kown as House of Verus. On this house was found the famous fresco depicting the Vesuvius. But the most interesting is the Cubiculum 43; A hidden room, not accessible to tourists, with erotic frescoes.In a documentary, the archaeologist Raksha Dave shows us that there is a opening in the form of a small square window which suggests that someone watched from the other side the actual sexual scenes that happened inside. Something that is not mentioned in the documentary but that I observed when looking at the frescoes: in both you can see that in the upper part to the left in one and to the right in the other, there is a painted square; It seems to make no sense but it looks exactly like the secret window.Raksha Dave talks about slaves had sex; But ( in my opinion) Master or Mistress could ask that of the slaves without being ashamed, and less hiding. The secrecy, the privacy, the hidden window, is an indicator that those who had sex in that room were from the same social circle or even members of the same family from that house. Did Verus enjoy seeing his wife with other men, or was it perhaps his own son he was looking at? Another fact not mentioned in the documentary: in the Atrium of this house was found a graffiti that reads: “My dear lustful son, how many women have you slept with?”Certainly, something strange was going on in The House of Verus, especially in Room 43. -- source link
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