416 252 122 108 A money changer's booth, where coins of different denominations could be exchanged. The Romans had a monetary economy, with copper denarii and more valuable silver and gold coins.
#EUREIP2B.MOV
12 10 92 113 A cobbler making leather shoes, working very much in the same way as cobblers today. He made a variety of footwear, ranging from openwork laced sandals to hobnailed boots, which were worn by both men and women.
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268 125 105 124 A cutler's stall. Knives were important for many everyday activities: for cutting up and eating food, for example - forks had not yet been invented. Knives could provide a useful defensive weapon and were invaluable in the hunt.
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408 125 131 124 A party of men examine cloth in a draper's shop. Some shops were mere booths erected on the pavement while others occupied the ground-floor front room of houses or tenement buildings.
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132 141 137 108 A man drives his horse and cart along the cobbled street. Laws brought in by Julius Caesar forbade wheeled traffic in the streets during daylight hours, to keep down congestion. The streets were generally wet and dirty. Where possible pedestrians walked on the pavement alongside, although these were often fully taken up by vendors' stalls.
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364 20 100 97 In the poultry shop, a customer selects a plucked fowl from among the birds and game hung up on display. She is likely to be a slave or another shopkeeper: aristocratic Roman ladies did not do their own shopping.
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12 142 120 107 Customers discuss the relative merits of different cushions.
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108 10 72 110 In a small factory, a woman pounds materials to manufacture soap, ointments or cosmetics.
#EUREIP2I.MOV
184 252 236 108 A man and his son select fruit and vegetables from a range of stalls. Often different areas of the market or shopping street contained a concentration of shops selling the same goods. The Romans generally ate vegetables and fruit, particularly apples, with bread, cheese or eggs for their lunch: cooked dishes were taken in the evening.
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40 266 141 93 Men are served wine, or a mixture of wine and water, in a tavern. Wine was produced in Italy and other parts of the empire, and transported in amphorae. The men amuse themselves with board games or dice while they drink and talk.
#EUREIP2K.MOV
184 10 170 108 A busy blacksmith's forge. The master smith hammers a tool into shape on his anvil while his assistant blows the fire with bellows to keep it hot. Among the goods the smith might make were locks and keys as well as agricultural tools.
