This aspect strikes me as a perfect crowd sourcing "science at home" project or a craptcha task: "The work was time-consuming and involved a lot of guesswork,

This aspect strikes me as a perfect crowd sourcing "science at home" project or a craptcha task: "The work was time-consuming and involved a lot of guesswork, particularly because the layers of paper were not just rolled, but squashed and mangled by their encounter with Vesuvius" I'd participate, in my infinite spare time. My Latin isn't so good, but this would probably help with that, also.