Pompeii

Pompeii

The earthquake
1. Damage
  1. Water system destroyed
  2. Temple of Jupiter damaged
  3. flocks of sheep killed by toxic gases
  4. houses collapsed
  5. Vesuvius gate damaged
2. people in side the walls rushed to the country side
3. Midday it stopped for about an hour
  1. started again and went on into the night
4. would take ages to rebuild
5. On the 4th February 69AD
Eruption
1. 24th August
  1. An Umbrella pine cloud coming from Vesuvius
2. 8am
  1. plumes coming out
3. 3pm
  1. ash and pumas fall down, small fires
4. 5pm
  1. volcanic lightning and big rocks falling
5. 8pm
  1. gas rises from the earth
6. 1am
  1. first pyroclastic flow misses the town
  2. 2nd goes half way
  3. 3rd kills any thing left
7. 9am
  1. nothing left
8. 1am
  1. lhar kills Herculaneum
Rediscovery
1. 1710 Herculaneum found
2. 1748 started to dig at Pompeii and destroyed much
3. Fiorelli
  1. was a coin expert
  2. very organised and organised houses and numbered them
  3. went down from the roof rather than through the walls that the people before him did
  4. reduced theft
  5. put things in museums
  6. made plaster casts
    1. found holes and filled them with plaster of Paris and found humans
  7. lot less destruction
The forum
1. Layout
2. Temple of Jupiter
  1. to worship king of the gods
3. macellum
  1. fish and meat market
  2. circular bit is a fish pond
  3. meat stalls on the out side
4. temple of public lares
  1. to worship public gods
5. temple of Vespasian
  1. worship him because he gave money after the earthquake
6. The eumacia building
  1. Head quarters for the fullers
7. worship Apollo the sun god
  1. temple of apollo
8. the bacillica
  1. law court also used for stock exchange
9. Comitium
  1. for the town magistrates (law admitter)
10. the municipal buildings
  1. A:aedials monitoring the town
  2. B:dumviri the senior law and judgement office
  3. C:curia the senates house

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