Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Some less offensive ruins

On Sunday we went to Volubilis and Moulay Idriss.
Volubilis is these cool Roman ruins. 
That is the public bath. You sit in the indentations on the sides. I have no idea what the middle part is for.




Those are at the base of columns to certain buildings. The symbols let you know what structure it is. The first is the bakery and the second is the butcher. Pretty cool stuff.

That's a gate. You can also see how they had different styles of columns, some plain and some spiraled. 



There were also lots of mosaics like the one above, but honestly you might as well look at the wiki page for those. It was really sunny so it was hard to take good pictures.

And lastly...


Can anyone guess what those lines in the floor are for?

1 comment:

  1. Can you give us a clue? Dad, Charles, and Natalie also were unable to offer ideas. We couldn't tell the context at all; is this the entranceway to a building? Maybe it signifies something about what the building is for, like the symbols above---but if so, then what, I just can't guess.

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