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> It has been exceptionally well preserved because it was reused as a Roman-era paving stone on a colonnaded street

The sculpture is very 3-dimensional. I don't get how it made a good paving stone, or how being used as a paving stone didn't end up conflicting with the "well preserved" part more.

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The back side of it looks pretty flat - perhaps it was buried face down, in two pieces. The Romans were pretty crafty about re-using things.

Besides which, ever been to/seen the streets of Pompeii? Flat, level surfaces for road construction only seemed important to the Romans as a side quest. They would fill the gaps with stone and mortar - perhaps that is the case here.

> The statue was discovered in two parts

So maybe it was about one of those parts and the lower one looks like it could be a decent paving stone.

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