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sample ash
Specimen of grey ash, in a glass test-tube stoppered with pink cotton-wool, mounted on a card label: 'Ashes which now fill amphorae of Wine Cellar of Arius Diomedes, Pompei'. Inscription: Ashes which now fill amphorae of Wine Cellar of Arius…
sample lava
Three lumps of lava, mounted on a card label: 'Lava used in building houses in Pompei'. Thomson's MS Catalogue adds: 'A proof that Vesuvius a volcano before AD 79'. Inscription: Lava used in building houses in Pompei