[PW] Re: Esoteric Name

[david meadows]

There's no formal name; a guy named fiorelli did the first ones a century
ago (using plaster) and in the 1980s they tried doing it with epoxy resin.
The cast itself is usually referred to as a 'cast'

dm
(classics guy) 

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Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 6:55 PM
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Subject: [PW] Esoteric Name

Hello Womb at s -

 

Patron has asked if there is a formal name for the process of making the
body casts of victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. He is also
interested to know if there is a name for the cast itself.

 

Thanks,

 

Gregg Jackson 

 

Southport Branch 

Indianapolis-Marion County 

     Public Library

 

 

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