Pompeii Casts. Victim numbered 1, plaster-cast made in 1863, from Vicolo degli Scheletri.

Found with casts numbered 2 and 3, a small distance from cast number 4.

Victim numbered 1, photographed by Michele Amodio. Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.

In his description of this plaster-cast in his Guida di Pompei, 1877, Fiorelli described –

“Man, [no.1], fallen in the lapilli, which does not preserve the impression of the back or of the right arm.

The swelling of the stomach is due to a piece of ash having broken off at the time when the gesso was formed. (Reg.VII, insula IX, via quarta).

See Fiorelli, Guida di Pompei, [Rome, 1877,] p.88-89.

See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (p.93).

Victim numbered 1. Found 5th Feb 1863. G. Sommer photo no. 1243.

Victim numbered 1, photographed by Brogi (no. 5575) in a display case in the museum. Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.

Victim number 1 in lower picture and victims 2 and 3 in upper picture.

See Niccolini F, 1862. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Secondo. Napoli, Descrizione Generale, Tav. XVIII.

VII.1.47 Pompeii. April 2019.  Victims numbered 1, on right, and numbered 4, on left.

Plaster casts on display in triclinium 8, these were found in the Vicolo degli Scheletri, and not in this house.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VII.1.47 Pompeii. May 2017. Numbered 1.

Plaster cast of large, strong male on display in triclinium 8 but found in the Vicolo degli Scheletri.

Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

VII.1.47 Pompeii. March 2017. Room 8, looking across plaster-casts towards window in east wall.

The plaster-cast numbered 1 and 4 can be seen in the centre of the photograph, below them are the fractured remains of the plaster-cast numbered 2.

They were found in the Vicolo degli Scheletri.