Figures
11.1 Reconstruction of Roman tables beside Roman couches for reclining, Casa di C. Iulius Polybius, triclinium EE. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 228
11.2 Reconstruction of Roman benches for sitting, Casa di C. Iulius Polybius, peristilio CC. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 229
11.3 Roman triclinium table and couch under a fresco of Dirce, Casa di C. Iulius Polybius, triclinium EE. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 229
11.4 Late third style continuous narrative fresco, Casa di C. Iulius Polybius, triclinium EE. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 230
11.5 Close up of Fig. 11.4. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 231
11.6 Bull dragging Dirce, Casa di C. Iulius Polybius, triclinium EE, and Villa Imperiale, peristyle D. Courtesy of Umberto Pappalardo 232
11.7 Animal landscape, Casa della Caccia antica, giardino 13. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 234
11.8 Monumental animal landscape, Casa dei Ceii, giardino h. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 235
11.9 Graffito of two gladiators, Casa dei Ceii, porticus r. CIL Suppl. IV:3:1 (1952), 8055 235
11.10 Graffito of two gladiators, Casa dei Ceii, porticus r. CIL Suppl. IV:3:1 (1952), 8056 236
11.11 Visual representation of gladiators and animal landscape with lion chasing horse, Pompeian amphitheater. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 237
11.12 Colossal Orpheus singing, playing lyre among peaceful, wild animals, Casa di Vesonius Primus o di Orfeo, peristilio o. Courtesy of Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director General, Ministero della Cultura, Parco Archeologico di Pompei 241
11.13 Lancelot Théodore Turpin de Crissé’s sketches on the Sorrento Base. Courtesy of Umberto Pappalardo 247
12.1 Composite photograph of the two statuettes from the Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 256
12.2 Statuette of Venus with Eros and Priapus. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 258
12.3 Statuette of youth carrying a backpack, a patera and a situla. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 260
12.4 Detail of a grape harvester from the Harvest Mosaic in the National Public Museum of Cherchell, Algeria. Courtesy of James Patterson 262
12.5 Detail of olive harvester from the Triumph of Neptune Mosaic, Bardo Museum, Tunisia. Photo by Andy Hammond. Public Domain: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thecolchesterkid/3973042618/in/album-72157622343520793/ 263
12.6 A Lar from a Pompeiian wall painting. Public Domain: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2613/standing-deity-holding-horn-and-bucket-roman 264
12.7 Plan of the Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 267
12.8 Top plan of Room 16, Ostia Synagogue. Drawing by Mary Jane Cuyler and L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 269
12.9 Elevation drawings showing sections A–B and C–D from fig. 12.8. Drawing by Mary Jane Cuyler and L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 270
12.10 Amphora workspace in situ, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 271
12.11 A lid or plate of African cookware in situ, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 273
13.1 African lamps with the Menorah, Ostia Antica. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 283
13.2 Lamps with the Menorah, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 285
13.3 Plan of the Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 286
13.4 Lamp of Athenian production, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 287
13.5 Lamps with the Menorah, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 288
13.6 Lamps with the Menorah, Mould 1, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 290
13.7 Lamps with the Menorah, Mould 2, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 291
13.8 Lamps with the Torah Shrine, Mould 3, Ostia Synagogue. Courtesy of L. Michael White, UT•OSMAP Excavations 292
14.1 Grenfell and Hunt’s revised site plan. Courtesy of Benjamin Henry 303
14.2 Grenfell and Hunt’s original site plan. Courtesy of Benjamin Henry 305
14.3 Oxyrhynchus mound. Courtesy of the EES archives 308
14.4 Reconstruction of the Thomas and Matthew mound. Drawing by Geoffrey S. Smith 314
15.1 Codex Ambrosianus I 101 sup. fol. 10r. Courtesy of the Ambrosian Library 319
Tables
8.1 Comparison of Livy’s Bacchants and Pliny’s Christians 173
12.1 Stratigraphy of OSMAP Trenches 30 and 24, Ostia Synagogue 270
14.1 Summary of Grenfell and Hunt’s reporting on the Thomas and Matthew mound, Oxyrhynchus 313
15.1 Hypothetical reconstruction of the Muratorian Fragment’s abbreviated archetype 322