庞贝古城一橱柜重见天日，展现维苏威火山爆发前的生活面貌罗马，10月29日——庞贝古城中一个被封存了近2000年的橱柜，让人们得以近距离窥见维苏威火山摧毁这座古罗马城市之前一位居民的生活：从化妆用具、香水到硬币、炊具和童年护身符，应有尽有。
Pompeii cupboard opens window onto life before Vesuvius erupted ROME, Oct 29 - A cupboard sealed for almost 2,000 years in Pompeii has yielded an intimate snapshot of one resident's life before Mount Vesuvius destroyed the ancient Roman city, from make-up utensils and perfume to coins, cooking pots and childhood amulets.
庞贝曾是那不勒斯附近一座繁华的城市，公元79年的一次火山喷发将其掩埋在数米厚的火山灰下，建筑、物品和涂鸦因此得以保存。
The once-thriving city of Pompeii, near Naples, was buried by a volcanic eruption in AD 79, preserving buildings, objects and graffiti under metres of ash.
庞贝考古公园在一份声明中说，考古学家根据在古庞贝最繁忙的街道之一——丰饶街（Via dell'Abbondanza）上一座房屋中发现的痕迹，拼凑出了这个木制橱柜的残片。
Archaeologists pieced together bits of the wooden cupboard from traces uncovered in a house on Via dell'Abbondanza, one of the busiest streets of ancient Pompeii, the site said in a statement.
“我们无法确切还原曾住在这座房屋里的人的身份，但这些残片让我们更接近他们的日常生活，”考古公园主任加布里埃尔·祖赫特里格尔说。
"We cannot reconstruct with certainty the identity of whoever lived in the house, but these fragments bring us closer to their daily life," said site director Gabriel Zuchtriegel.
柜中存放的物品中有一条项链，由至少24件骨、玻璃膏、陶土和水晶制成的小物件组成，其中包括贝斯神和墨丘利神的形象，以及微缩的手、脚、松果和葡萄串。
Among the objects stored inside was a necklace comprising at least 24 tiny objects made of bone, glass paste, earthenware and rock crystal, including images of the gods Bes and Mercury, as well as miniature hands, feet, pine cones and bunches of grapes.
这种项链被称为“crepundia”，传统上送给罗马儿童，既作为护身符，也作为拨浪鼓——其声响有助于大人掌握孩子的行踪。
Such necklaces, known as crepundia, were traditionally given to Roman children both as protective amulets and as rattles whose sounds helped adults keep track of them.
有时人们会一直保存到成年，作为童年的纪念物，这为这座房屋那位不知名的住户提供了一种格外私人的联系。香水、钱币与老鼠其他发现则讲述了更为平淡的日常生活故事。
They were sometimes kept into adulthood as mementos of childhood, offering a particularly personal connection to the unknown inhabitant of the house. PERFUME, MONEY AND MICE Other finds tell a more prosaic story of daily life.
柜中有镊子、一个小玻璃香水瓶或药膏瓶和一个香炉，还有青铜、玻璃和陶瓷器皿以及炊具。一个木箱中的铅制砝码表明，这座房屋里有人从事贸易活动。一个小编织容器里装着38枚青铜硬币。
There were tweezers, a small glass perfume or ointment bottle and an incense burner, alongside bronze, glass and ceramic vessels and cooking pots. Lead weights in a wooden box suggested that someone in the house was involved in trade. A small woven container held 38 bronze coins.
钱币和显然具有情感价值的物品都留在了原处，这一事实表明，维苏威火山爆发后，物主没有时间取走它们。
The fact that both money and objects with apparent sentimental value remained behind suggests the owners had no time to retrieve them after Vesuvius erupted.
“庞贝不仅是伟大艺术作品之地，也是最普通的物品让过去的人性维度得以复原之地，”楚克特里格尔说。
"Pompeii is not just a place of great works of art. It is also a place where the most ordinary objects restore the human dimension of the past," Zuchtriegel said.
“这一发现的价值在于能够将生活的不同痕迹一并解读：个人习惯、工作与记忆。”这座房屋位于庞贝中心区域，因在那里发现的铭文，暂时被认为与一名叫科尔内利乌斯·马克西穆斯的男子有关。其立面最早于1912年发掘，但考古学家直到现在才在更大规模修复项目的框架下，调查了其后部的部分房间。
"The value of this discovery lies in the possibility of reading together the different traces of a life: personal habits, work and memories." The house, in a central area of Pompeii, is tentatively associated with a man named Cornelius Maximus because of inscriptions discovered there. Its facade was first excavated in 1912, but archaeologists have only now investigated some of the rooms behind it as part of a wider restoration project.
此次发掘还提供了证据，表明两千年来城市生活的某些问题几乎没有改变，考古学家在一个放置于高处储藏区的双耳瓮内，发现了两只幼鼠的碎骨骼。
The excavation also provided evidence that some problems of urban living have changed remarkably little in two millennia, with archaeologists finding the fragmented skeletons of two young mice inside an amphora kept on a raised storage area.