“While two of them are about 1.7 metres long, one bed measures just 1.4 metres, and may therefore have belonged to a young man or child.”
Three rope beds, a chamber pot and a chest of horse harness, all in one cramped room. The family’s ceremonial chariot sat a few steps away. Pompeii’s frescoes show how the rich lived. This room shows who kept the chariot polished, and one of them was a child.