Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano
and Pompeii Director Gabriel Zuchtriegel on Monday hailed the
latest discoveries at Pompeii: the skeletons of two women and a
child aged between 3 and 4 who had sought shelter in a bakery
from the eruption that buried the ancient Roman commercial town
in layers of lavic ash and pumice, as well as two frescoed walls
featuring mythological scenes - Apollo and Daphne in one and
Poseidon and Amymone in the other - near an atrium in the Regio
IX, occupying the central part of Pompeii.
"These continual finds make us understand how much remains to be
uncovered at Pompeii," said the minister.
"Now we are happily concluding the Great Pompeii Project, and I
compliment the director, but we have already discussed about how
to follow it up".
Zuchtriegel said "the discovery of the three victims of the
eruption put together a team made up of archaeologists,
anthropologists, seismologists and archaeo-botanists who are
working together to get the most data from these finds."
He said the three "did not die from the direct effects of the
eruption but due to the collapse of buildings during the first
phase of the eruption, probably because of the earthquakes that
accompanied it.
"Precisely because the Great Pompeii Project was such a great
success, we want to go further and avert returning to a
situation where we need an extraordinary funding, working
instead in the viewpoint of sustainability and conservation of
the patrimony".
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