Plaster
Part of the album: Italy Day 6: Travels to Pompeii
These plaster statues were made by injecting plaster into air pockets in the volcanic rock when excavating Pompeii. Basically the ash covered the city, the ash hardened, then over the course of hundreds of years the bodys decomposed and left air pockets. When the archaeologists would find an air pocket they would inject it with plaster, let it set, then break away all the ash.
These plaster statues were made by injecting plaster into air pockets in the volcanic rock when excavating Pompeii. Basically the ash covered the city, the ash hardened, then over the course of hundreds of years the bodys decomposed and left air pockets. When the archaeologists would find an air pocket they would inject it with plaster, let it set, then break away all the ash.
