Finders, Keepers

Let’s say you’re a well-connected citizen of Pompeii back in about 80 BC (don’t worry, it’s another century-and-a-half before Vesuvius is set to blow) and you’re invited to dinner at the most luxurious house in town.

You arrive at the southern entrance, where a slave meets you and conducts you into a spacious atrium, open to the sky. You can’t help noticing the statuette of a dancing faun in the (a large marble basin for collecting