Study sets matching "pompeii"
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24th August 79AD
Herculaneum
Pliny the Younger
Guiseppe Fiorelli
Day Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii
Town near Pompeii. Also destroyed
Wrote only account of eruption
First to properly excavated Pompeii
24th August 79AD
Day Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii
Herculaneum
Town near Pompeii. Also destroyed
inhumation
cremation
cenotaph
century box
burial type with actual burial of body... this practice stopped…
burial type that the Romans practiced... put ashes in cinerary u…
burial type that was a symbolic masthead
tomb with arch and benches
inhumation
burial type with actual burial of body... this practice stopped…
cremation
burial type that the Romans practiced... put ashes in cinerary u…
Samnites
Vesuvius
Herculaneum
Vitruvius
an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium in south-central…
the volcano that totally fukced Pompeii
one of the towns that was fukced by the pyroclastic flows of M…
author, architect, civil engineer and military engineer
Samnites
an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium in south-central…
Vesuvius
the volcano that totally fukced Pompeii
HVNN
Porta Nocera
Schola tomb
Aedicula tomb
The current cemeteries in order from left to right ... Herculano…
Primarily freedmen in rows, but at one point close to the wall…
associated with the curial class, only found in Porta Nocera,…
multistory, often on tall podium.
HVNN
The current cemeteries in order from left to right ... Herculano…
Porta Nocera
Primarily freedmen in rows, but at one point close to the wall…