I always see either small artifacts (tools, jewellery, etc) or big ones (ruins of a city, a whole column). So it's kinda weird, but interesting, to see just a piece of wooden door. Yep, that's a door alright.
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It's actually a touch fascinating, because panel doors like this wouldn't re-emerge in Europe for centuries after Rome's fall. Panel doors resist warping better than doors made just out of straight boards.
Yet it just looks like a normal door to us. Strange how pieces of the past can seem so modern, and how many things we take as normal are innovations of one sort or another.
Other than the wear and tear it's pretty much the same as the doors in my 1900s home, which is pretty wild.
It’s nice to see a Roman ogee in its natural habitat
I’m really surprised by the trim detail; it looks very contemporary!