A prison – bakery, where enslaved people and donkeys were locked up and exploited to grind the grain needed to produce bread. A narrow room with no external view, with small windows with iron grates for the passage of light. And carvings in the floor to coordinate the movement of the animals, forced to wander around for hours blindfolded. The plant emerged in Regio IX, insula 10, where excavations are underway as part of a broader project to secure and maintain the fronts that surround the still uninvestigated area of ??the ancient city of Pompeii.
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