The Temple of Venus

“Pompeii became the Roman colony of Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum in 80 B.C., nine years after it had been besieged and taken by the Roman general and dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Lead sling-shot was certainly used in this attack, and, along with stone balls fired by Sulla´s artillery, it is found in several areas inside the northern wall of the city where the siege was most fierce. Lead sling-shot was also found at the temple of Venus mixed in with the deposits of building rubble used to create the sanctuary terrace. This places the commencement of construction in the period after 89 and suggests that the rubble deposited for the terrace came from buildings that were damaged or destroyed in the Roman attack and subsequently demolished."
 (source: University of Sheffield)