Casts from Pompeii
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The ninety casts are not all complete bodies: sixty-nine whole or slightly incomplete casts have been recorded, two of which belong to animals, while there are twenty-one incomplete and fragmentary casts and five catalogue numbers (82, 83, 88, 89, 90) have been assigned to particularly small groups of various fragments. In total there are forty-nine males, of which six are aged between thirteen and twenty (nos. 9, 29, 31, 33, 48, 57), one between seven and twelve (n. 44) and the remaining forty-two are over twenty.
l novanta calchi non sono tutti corpi completi: sono stati censiti sessantanove calchi interi o leggermente lacunosi, due dei quali appartengono ad animali, mentre i calchi incompleti e frammentari sono ventuno e cinque numeri di catalogo (nn. 82, 83, 88, 89,90) sono stati assegnati a gruppi di frammenti vari particolarmente ridotti. Complessivamente si contano quarantanove maschi, dei quali sei in età compresa tra i tredici e i vent'anni (nn. 9, 29, 31, 33, 48, 57), uno tra i sette e i dodici anni (n. 44) e i restanti quarantadue oltre i vent'anni.
See Osanna M., Capurso A., Masseroli S. M. (a cura di), 2021. I calchi di Pompei da Giuseppe Fiorelli ad oggi. Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 46. Premessa al Catalogo.
1868
Victim 5
Found March 1868, in a group of seven other victims in VII.2.16, the House of Gavius Rufus
1873
Victim 7
Found in June 1873, near a doorway into I.5.3, described as ‘the sick man’
1874
Victim 8
Watchdog of Vesonius Primus, found 20th November 1874 chained behind door of VI.14.20
1875
Victim 9
Man lying on his back, found 23rd April 1875, together with the young girl lying face down, in Via Stabiana near the north-east corner of VI.14 in the middle of the street in the layers of ash about four metres above ground level
1875
Victim 10
Young girl lying face downwards with her head resting on her right arm, found 23rd April 1875, together with the man lying on his back, in Via Stabiana near the north-east corner of VI.14 in the middle of the street in the layers of ash about four metres above ground level
1882
Victim 11
From VIII.5.39, young boy, found on 24th January 1882, around 12 feet (4 metres) above the ancient ground level
1882
Victim 12
Found on 28th December 1882, in VIII.6.6 or 5, at a height of approximately four metres from the original soil level
1915
Victim 24
Found in vicolo between I.6 and I.10 south of the eastern section of the wall of I.6.2 the Casa del Criptoportico
1933
Victim 27
The cast was made a short distance from the Caupona of Pherusae in via dell'Abbondanza, at the height of the Vicolo di Venere, between the insulae 2 and 3 of the Regio II.
1935-9?
The Running Man?
Unidentified victim, possibly the Running Man found in the Palaestra 1935-9
