There are a couple of sheds full of unearthed artifacts that we apparenly not of enough interest to be carted off to the Museum in Naples. right off the forum.Mostly household, or everyday items. Lots of terracotta and innumerable fragments.
These big covered storage areas are lined with shelves each one crammed with the detritus of everyday life. There are stacks of bright colourful plastic boxes are filled with smaller fragments while on the floor are lined up hundreds, no, thousands of amphorae. Above these fat jars, kraters, bits of marble sculpture and bronze. The aisles in-between the shelves are scattered with garden sculptures, marble tables, columns, terracotta roof decorations and tragically a number of the victims of the eruption preserved in plaster and encased in glass cases.
A morbidly fascinating display disturbingly reminiscent of the devils Costco.
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