Dr. Jessica Venner
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And on that, they would have branding.
And it would say, usually, flower of garum from the workshop of Scourus, for example.
And so there was this formula that he developed
as branding that would recur on every bottle of his fish sauce.
And like I mentioned earlier, Pliny mentions the fish sauce of Pompeii.
If he's dominating that fish sauce, it's very likely that because they were around at the same time, that it was his fish sauce that he was referring to, which I just think is crazy that we can track that.
It's an archaeologist's dream, honestly.
It's a bit mind blowing, isn't it?
And, you know, he was so fond of his branding that he ended up putting mosaics of his bottles in his atrium.
So his entrance hallway with this branding on it.
He had about, we think, about seven workshops in the city.