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Some Roman ovens are preserved. A large oven is exhibited in the Taberna near Augusta Raurica (Switzerland) [click here for information] and in the Saalburg (Germany) there are even several ovens displayed [click here for information]. But I was very impressed by the small ovens at the open-air exhibition of the Römermuseum Schwarzenacker [click here for the website]. These small ovens made a natural impression on me. They look as if every house had one of these at home, whereas the oven in Augusta Raurica seems rather large and “exclusive”.
Were the ovens all inside the house, as in Augusta Raurica, or were there also ovens placed outside? Without speculating, I decided to install ovens in the game as decorative elements. So that can be shown to the players, they are placed in the courtyards of the residential buildings. This may not be historically correct, but it gives more variety to the cityscape, ultimately the oven is not an artificial foreign body that doesn’t fit in with the times.
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