1. What Sort of Life Did a Roman Woman of the Middle Classes le
... or wealthy backgrounds that would be able to afford such "luxuries" as these. So therefore we can only really understand the life of wealthy and middle class women. This wall painting shows that women were able to write (and therefore must have been able to read) as she is holding a pen -a stylus- and something to write on -a wax tablet. Even though ... of the bakery -it was identified as a bakery as mills for grinding corn and ovens for baking the bread were found. In the bakery they found a painting of the baker and his wife. The painting shows the baker's wife holding a writing table...
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