|
|
|
|
|
|
© Stéphane Compoint
|
|
The Vicolo Storto brothel counted dozens of rooms on two floors. The first floor was reserved for wealthy clients and had a separate entrance. The rooms were no doubt equipped with wooden beds and their walls adorned with Fourth Century style decorations. The rooms were elegant and had no erotic paintings. On the ground floor, patronized by more modest customers and slaves, is a hallway whose erotic paintings likely served as a catalogue of sexual services offered by the establishment. In its five rooms (“celae”), the customers as well as the prostitutes covered the walls in graffiti. Map of the site:
A: Hallway
B: Celae (the “Rooms”)
C: Latrines
D: Secondary Entrance
E: Stairs leading to the top floor.
|
|
|
|
|
