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Arge body a smaller statue was partly carved. This was a puzzling thing,
but the excavators studied it out at last. They said: "Old Roman books
tell us that sixteen years before the great eruption there had been
another earthquake. It had shaken down many buildings and had cracked
many walls. But the people loved their city, and when the earthquake was
over, they began to rebuild and to make their houses and temples better
than ever. We have found many signs of that earthquake. We have found
uncarved blocks of marble in the forum. Evidently masons were at work
there when the eruption stopped them. We have found rebuilt walls in
some of the houses. And here is the temple of Jupiter being used as a
marble shop. Probably the early earthquake had shaken down and broken
the statue of the god. A sculptor was set to work to carve a new one
from the ruin. But suddenly the volcano burst forth, the artist dropped
his chisel and mallet, and here we have found his unfinished work--a
statue within a statue." Behind the roofless porches of the forum are
other ruined buildings--where the officers of the city did business,
where the citizens met to vote, where tailors spread out their cloth and
sold robes and cloaks. One large market building is particularly
interesting. You will enter a courtyard with walls all around it and
signs of lost porches. Broken partitions show where little stalls used
to open upon the court. Other stalls opened upon the street. In some of
these the excavators found, buried in the ashes and charred by the fire,
figs, chestnuts, plums, grapes, glass dishes of fruit, loaves of bread,
and little cakes. Were customers buying the night's dessert when
Vesuvius frightened them away? In a cool corner of the building is a
fish market with sloping marble counter. Near it in the middle of the
courtyard are the bases of columns a

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