Next is a room of artifacts that one might find in a triclinium, which was the dining room. Next to the dining room, by design, is the kitchen, with surprisingly familiar items of cookware.

Detail of mosaic Triclinium Leoninum, Triclinium of St. Leo III in the Lateran Basilica, Rome, Italy. Restoration: Ferdinando Fuga (1743). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons This attention to lavish detail ...

It’s been dubbed the House of Phrixus and Helle after the colorful frescoes of the Greek mythological twins found on the walls of its dining room (triclinium). The story of the youths is itself ...