Mount Vesuvius Didn't Kill Everyone in Pompeii. Where Did the Survivors Go?

Live Science ^ | February 26, 2019 07:45am ET | Laura Geggel,

[BenLurkin]

Public infrastructure projects that sprung up about this time, likely to accommodate the sudden influx of refugees, also provided clues about resettlement, Tuck said. That's because between 15,000 and 20,000 people lived in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the majority of them survived Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption.

One of the survivors, a man named Cornelius Fuscus later died in what the Romans called Asia (what is now Romania) on a military campaign. "They put up an inscription to him there," Tuck told Live Science. "They said he was from the colony of Pompeii, then he lived in Naples and then he joined the army."

In another case, the Sulpicius family from Pompeii resettled in Cumae, according to historical documents that detail their flight and other records, Tuck said. "Outside the walls of Pompeii, [archaeologists] discovered a strongbox (similar to a safe) full of their financial records," he said. "It was on the side of the road, covered by ash. So clearly, someone had taken this big strongbox when they fled, but then about a mile outside the city, dumped it."

The documents in this strongbox detailed several decades' worth of financial loans, debts and real estate holdings. It appears that the Sulpicius family members chose to resettle in Cumae because they had a business social network there, Tuck said.

During his research, Tuck also found resettlement evidence for quite a few women and freed slaves. Many refugees married each other, even after they relocated to new cities. One such woman, Vettia Sabina, was buried in a family tomb in Naples with the inscription "Have" adorning it. The word "have" is Oscan, a dialect that was spoken in Pompeii both before and after the Romans took over the city in 80 B.C.

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[Political Junkie Too]

But I don't want to land in the New York City
I don't want to land in Mexico
I don't want want to land on no Three Mile Island
I don't want to see my skin aglow
I don't want to land in Commanchee sky park
Or in Nashville, Tennessee
I don't want to land in no San Juan airport
Or in Yukon Territory
I don't want to land in no San Diego
I don't want to land in no Buzzard's Bay
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[RedMonqey]

Atlantis. They went to Atlantis.

[Buttons12]

One such woman, Vettia Sabina, was buried in a family tomb in Naples with the inscription "Have" adorning it.

After the eruption, they were known as the Have Nots.

[CondorFlight]

Interesting, in that there are some houses in Pompeii that have Christian inscritions —showing that Christianity had arrived and was thriving by then in Italy.

[hinckley buzzard]

Many Pompeiians had left town early because the aqueduct was disrupted by pre-eruption shifts in the earth and cut off the water supply to the city. The city was buried in stone and ash, not lava, which is why it can be excavated with frescoes on the walls largely intact. Unlike Herculaneum it was not buried under a flow of super heated gas and mud.

[BenLurkin]

Well played!

[bgill]

They went as far and as fast as their rowboats could take them.

[litehaus]

And some became shoemakers in the MISSOURI BOOTHEEL ?..lol

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Florsheim once called Missouri its home.

[litehaus]

“Florsheim once called Missouri its home.”

Yepper, Gauss, the famous German math guy, had a couple of sons settle in St. Charles...One of their progeny beat my wife of 50+ years out of valedictorian in HS long long ago..

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Florsheim Imperials featured leather from inside the shoulder of a draft horse.

A true cordovan material vs. the plastic some military and police wear...

[litehaus]

“draft horse.”

Speaking of horses..hav ya been thru the palace the the Budweiser horses live in? UNREAL !

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

When I was in the Navy in the early 70s, I was on a ship home ported in Naples. We were out 75% of the time, so were in port one week per month and had plenty of time to explore. I found Herculaneum more interesting than Pompeii. The former was populated by more wealthy people, often visiting from Rome with summer villas there. Pompeii was more of an agricultural center. I remember seeing a cross on a wall in Herculaneum, with a small altar underneath, with the top surface slanted and under that, holes in the front of the altar that could hold scrolls. Vesuvius blew its stack about 15 or 16 years after St. Paul went through that area, on his fourth missionary visit.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

Oops. At the end of the previous post, make that “journey” and not “visit.” He didn’t go there four times.

[newfreep]

Florsheim Imperials featured leather from inside the shoulder of a draft horse.

So other shoe companies used non-drafted free agent horses?

Asking for a friend....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Volcanism is just barely catastrophism, but hey, Pompeii, and "Have".

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Budweiser DID NOT originate the horse-drawn coach that is its logo.
The first use was by the Schaeffer family in St. Louis.
The Schaeffers made candles, animal tallow grease and other lubes. The Schaeffers sold the rights to the Clydesdales to the Anheuser family before the Busch family bought in...

[Red Badger]

Herculaneum..................