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Scene: A market stall in Rome, 50 BC
Fits: A wax tablet and stylus for keeping accounts. Romans wrote on wax tablets; Cicero's letters mention them.
Source: Wikipedia: Wax tablet
Fits: Silver denarius coins. The denarius was Rome's standard silver coin from about 211 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Denarius
ANACHRONISM: A basket of ripe tomatoes. Tomatoes come from the Americas. They reached Europe via the Spanish and were grown there by the 1540s.
Source: Wikipedia: Tomato
Fits: Olive oil stored in clay amphorae. Ancient amphorae were used in vast numbers to transport and store wine, olive oil and garum.
Source: Wikipedia: Amphora