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classical archaeology owes to her intelligent and munificent 

 patronage. 



Queen Caroline proved her interest in the excavations 

 that were to contribute so much to our knowledge of an- 

 tiquity "by appearing frequently at Pompeii and stimu- 

 lating the workmen to greater efforts. She frequently 

 spent entire days, during the great heat of summer, at the 

 excavations, to encourage the lazy workmen and to reward 

 them in the event of success. The funds were increased 

 so as to make the employment of six hundred men possi- 

 ble. The Street of Tombs was next uncovered, forming a 

 complete and solemn picture, greatly impressing the be- 

 holder even to-day. For the first time a complete outline 

 of an ancient marketplace and its surroundings could be 

 obtained. The market, closed and inaccessible to wheeled 

 traffic, was surrounded by a colonnade filled with monu- 

 ments, with the great temple in the background, and be- 

 yond the arcades were other temples or public buildings, 

 among the principal being the stately Basilica. Constant 

 and increased efforts were thus crowned by important re- 

 sults. The Queen did not withhold generous assistance. 

 The French architect, Fr. Mazois, received from her fifteen 

 hundred francs while preparing his monumental work at 

 Pompeii." 1 



It is not too much to say that Queen Caroline's archae- 

 ological work at Pompeii was as far-reaching in its results 

 as was that of her illustrious brother in the land of the 

 Pharaohs. It drew in the most impressive manner the 

 attention of the world to the vast treasures of art which 

 lay concealed under the earth-covered ruins of the once 

 noted cities of the ancient world, and stimulated scholars 

 and learned societies to undertake similar researches in 



iMichaBlis, Op. cit., p. 20, Cf. also Fiorelli's Pompeinarum An- 

 tiquitatum Historia, Vol. I, Pars. Ill, Naples, 1860. Arditi charac- 

 terized Queen Caroline's interest in the excavations as " entusiasmo 

 veramente ammirdbile. ' ' 



