Just How Much Did Pompeii's Prized Blue Paint Cost? | Artnet News
Pompeii's newly discovered Blue Room shrine used six to ten pounds of rare Egyptian blue pigment, costing up to 90 percent of a soldier's annual salary, demonstrating extraordinary household wealth.
How Much Did It Cost to Paint a Pompeii Room Egyptian Blue?
Egyptian blue pigment cost Roman homeowners 50-90% of a legionary's annual salary to cover a single room, making it an extraordinarily expensive luxury item in first-century CE Pompeii.
A Nazi-looted mosaic depicting an intimate domestic scene was repatriated to Pompeii, but research revealed it originated in Latium, not Pompeii or its surrounding region.
