[Repeal The 17th]

This event has been named as the “Avellino Eruption” of Mount Vesuvius.
And you can search for more information using that term.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Looks like this is the Somma cone eruption event I’d read about years ago. There’s a Roman-era fresco in one of the formerly buried houses showing the pre-eruption Vesuvius with two peaks. The 79 AD eruption, uh, altered that a bit.

“Thousands of footprints in the surge ash deposit of the Avellino eruption testify to an en masse exodus from the devastated zone”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/SheridanVesuviusFootprints.jpg

“A human victim of the Avellino eruption found buried in a self protecting position typical of death due to suffocation. (Photo: Courtesy PNAS.)”
http://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/news/imported/hires/SheridanVesuviusSkeleton.jpg

Satellite view, appears to show the older caldera rim, with the current caldera inside it:
http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20120225-Vesuvius TM3.png
1822 eruption (painting)
http://factsanddetails.com/media/2/20120225-Vesuvius1822scrope.jpg
http://factsanddetails.com/world/cat51/sub323/item2208.html

http://www.pnas.org/content/103/12/4366.full

http://mediterranee.revues.org/3253
http://mediterranee.revues.org/docannexe/image/3253/img-2.png