Meals in the Greco-Roman World

A Seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature

Figures for Carolyn Osiek, “What Kinds of Meals Did Julia Felix Have in Pompeii?”

Note: for copyright reasons, only figures 2-6 appear on this webpage.  For all other figures consult either the original sources or your emailed version of the paper.

Figure 1: Plan of the Julia Felix complex at Pompeii (not available online)

Figure 2: Biclinium room 91 (photo by David Balch, used with permission)

Figure 3: Viridarium, view from the south (photo by Carolyn Osiek)

Figure 4: Room 83 (photo by David Balch)

Figure 5: Room 9 (photo by David Balch)

Figure 6: Room 9 (photo by David Balch)

Figure 7: Plan of the Augustales's building at Herculaneum (not available online)

Figure 8: Plan of the Grain-measurers's building at Ostia (not available online; see Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations, p. 64, figure 10)

Figure 9: Plan of the Augustales's building at Misenum (not available online; see J. H. D’Arms, "Memory, Money, and Status at Misenum: Three New Inscriptions from the Collegium of the Augustales," JRS 90 [2000], 126-44.)

Figure 10: Plan of the Berytian merchants, shippers, and traders' building at Delos (not available online; see Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations, p. 67, figure 14).