Last Supper in Pompeii at Ashmolean Museum
The Exhibition’s title is not the most promising. Last Supper in Pompeii is glossed by the Ashmolean’s publicity as “…telling the story of this ancient Roman town’s love affair with food”. Last supper? Love affair with food? Oh really? Clunking metaphor and culinary cliché are not the obvious way to advertise the tragedy of Pompeii, except to a foodie archaeologist.
