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The House of the Sliding Door

Things made of wood have often survived in Herculaneum because the volcanic mud, which flowed in at a very high temperature and a very high speed (100 kilometres an hour has been estimated) and buried them to a depth of twenty metres, burnt them without oxygen and so turned them into charcoal.

In this house you can still see the sliding door which separated the atrium from the tablinum, and a bed - in a very bad state - in a bedroom just of the atrium.



the sliding doors with the tablinum behind






bed from the House of the Sliding-door


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