"Slave quarters" at Pompeii villa?

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/06/discovery-of-pompeii-slaves-room-sheds-rare-light-on-real-roman-life

[Jim Webster]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/06/discovery-of-pompeii-slaves-room-sheds-rare-light-on-real-roman-life

looks a bit like the sort of room young farm workers 'living in' before the war would expect, same sort of housing density

[DougM]

Essentially 'Barracks' style accommodation for farm workers. Still in play for workers coming to pick soft fruit here.

[Jim Webster]

Essentially 'Barracks' style accommodation for farm workers. Still in play for workers coming to pick soft fruit here.

I suspect that then, as now, it would be driven by margins. From what we can see from the Roman period, to be a rich as a landowner you needed an awful lot of it.

[Imperial Dave]

agreed. they are a 'commodity' themselves

[Imperial Dave]

a bit more info here

https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/arte/2021/11/05/a-pompei-riemerge-intatta-la-stanza-degli-schiavi-_e51cfbf9-e839-4c4e-86ce-bcd2b7e429a6.html?fbclid=IwAR1JdJmTrJWsMBXK1QEjK_EgfcMh8VEEGOUadA12k5gOrPtDKFOG3Iq5V0w