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Awesome photos - thank you so much!!

I think there's a vast difference between knowing Roman homes were decorated so colourfully and actually seeing it IRL... and the mosaics on the floor. Such fantastic pictures, thank you!

I think there's something in 'Rome in the media' for stuff like this.

I will get to see it for real, one day...

Oooh. That looks absolutely amazing!!

Pretty sure it's in the public domain, Caius!

Can't do commerce, but I was tying myself in knots over money and figured folks here might like the resulting table/conversion thingy, rather than having someone else end up in knots, too.

There is also Vestalia in June, the only time when anyone apart from the Vestal Virgins could enter the sanctuary of the Temple of Vesta. One for the married ladies, or anyone, though they have had the Lupercalia.

Or the Lemuria in May - the Roman Hallowe'en, during which there is much banishing of spirits by clashing pans and throwing beans. (They're crazy, these Romans!)