Cast of a sitting victim of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, 79 CE, Pompeii, Italy.
A plaster cast of a man who died sitting against a wall with his face buried in his arm. Archaeologists filled the void his body left in hardened ash — which is why this isn't a sculpture. It's a record of a last moment. Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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