Roman civilian tents

[Carlton Bach]

A fresco from Pompeii showing the arena riots there depicts awnings hung between upright poles that were probably used by street vendors. As to actual tents, I can#t say for the first century, but a third century mosaic from North Africa (I think - the book's identification of illustrations is lousy beyond describing) shows a pretty typical wall tent in use. This is clearly not a mnilitary scene, so presumably civilians used that kind of tent, too, when they had occasion to)