Thought it was a new find, but comparing the pics it is the same "fast food shop" I posted about a year ago (↑) – the archaeologists presumably had a "communication campaign" after finishing the job.
Anyway, interesting details & pictures:
Extraordinary discovery in Pompeii: Thermopolium found intact with food residues, animal bones
The skeleton of a small dog and human remains were also found in the street food shop.
The Thermopolium of Regio V, one of the snack bars at Pompeii, complete with an image of a Nereid riding a sea-horse, which had previously been partially excavated in 2019, re-emerges in its entirety, with other rich decorative still lifes, food residues, animal bones and victims of the eruption.
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The Thermopolia, where drinks and hot foods were served, (as indicated by the name of Greek origin), and stored in large dolia (jars) embedded in the masonry counter, were widespread in the Roman world, where it was typical to consume the prandium (the meal) outside the house. In Pompeii alone there are eighty of them.
The first analyses confirm that the paintings on the counter depict, at least in part, the foodstuffs and drinks which were actually sold inside the Thermopolium. The paintings on the counter include two mallard ducks, and indeed a fragment of duck bone was in fact found inside one of the containers, alongside swine, goats, fish and land snails, indicating the great variety of products of animal origin used in the preparation of the dishes.
On the other hand, the first archaeobotanical analyses have allowed us to identify fragments of deciduous oak, which probably belonged to structural elements of the counter. At the bottom of a dolium – which has been identified as a container for wine on the basis of the bottle for drawing the liquid that was found inside it – the presence of beans was detected, which had been intentionally broken apart or ground. In his De re Coquinaria (I,5), Apicius explains the reason for this, asserting that they were used in order to modify the taste and colour of the wine, bleaching it.
https://weirditaly.com/2020/12/26/extra ... mal-bones/ (more details & pics)
Reuters article with pics:
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2900D3?il=0
Italian article with lots of pics:
https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/pomp ... -1.5850754