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| Questão | Responda |
| Who is Giuseppe Fiorelli? | He was the inspector of excavation at Pompeii in 1860, and is known as a pioneer of modern archaeology because of the methods that he introduced at Pompeii |
| How did Fiorelli number houses in Pompeii? | He divided Pompeii into 9 regions (each containing up to 22 blocks [or INSULAE]) and numbered them with 3 numbers (according to its region, block, and entrance). This system made it easier for archaeologists to accurately record where objects were found |
| Describe the systematic excavation techniques that Firoelli introduced to archaeology. | He removed debris from earlier excavations and approached new excavations according to a plan (rather than randomly searching for special objects). Fiorelli carefully uncovered each building within a block before moving onto the next block |
| Describe the techniques used to create Fiorelli's plaster casts. | - He observed cavities in the hardened ash deposit left by organic materials - He poured plaster into these cavities -> acts like moulds - The plaster set, and the surrounding ash is chipped away revealing the shape of the body (or object) left. |
| Who is August Manu? | He is a German archaeologist that originally worked on the inscriptions from Pompeii, but his main interest is art and architecture. |
| What is August Manu famous for? | He made a study of the frescos in Pompeii and classified them into 4 styles according to a date range. |
| Outline each of the 4 styles of architecture, and state the time period that they are from. | - 1st style (2nd BCE) |
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