Photos of the Baths at Pompeii

The following photographs were taken of the remains of baths at Pompeii. The indentations in the wall were storage lockers.

See Curse of the Bath Thieves

A story told the photographer while visiting the site is that to prevent accidental (i.e., mistaking someone else's toga for one's own) theft, the lockers were marked. However, since the population was largely illiterate, words or numbers wouldn't do. Instead pictures of sexual positions distinguished one locker from the next.

See more photos from Pompeii:
Brothel
Read more about the Baths:
Revenge of the Bath Thieves

Photos by Corinne Gill

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