Write a short paragraph of market place in the Pompeii
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Macellum
POMPEII’S PUBLIC MARKETPLACE
Located at the northeast corner of the Forum, was the Macellum. The Macellum was a vast, spacious, commercial area wherein the townspeople shopped for food and other necessities, built to relieve pressure on the Forum as the city continued to grow more and more. People would visit the Macellum on a daily basis; it would have been filled with persistent shopkeepers as well as customers arguing about prices and merchandise. Archaeologists had first realized this area was used as a marketplace once excavations revealed food remains such as cereals, fruits in the north side of the building as well as fish scales and bones in the middle of its courtyard- and so, gives us an idea of what the townspeople sold here. The remains of several sheep were also found here suggesting animals would likely be sold alive perhaps to use as sacrifice to household gods being used as food.
(Right) A large market room that would have contained a counter on the left hand side. This counter would have been used for the sale of fish. This is made evident through the evidence found by archaeologists showing arrangements for carrying off water. They also discovered that the floor behind the counter was higher and slopes to the rear to connect to a gutter leading out into the streets, which also reinforces this area was used to sell fish and other foods requiring extra plumbing.
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