Pompeii Casts. Victim number 15. Described as a woman of mature age.
Found 11th October 1889 outside Porta Stabia towards the right side, on leaving the city.
Found with victim number 14.
Photo by Esposito, number 118. On the left, victim numbered 15. On the right, victim numbered 14.
Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.
Victims numbered 14 and 15, c.1890, in the Gladiator’s Barracks, looking north towards the Large Theatre.
Hand coloured albumen print, Edizione Esposito, number 118. On the left, victim numbered 15. On the right, victim numbered 14.
Pompeii Stabian Gate. Old postcard of victims numbered 14 and 15. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Victim number 15. July 2011. Plaster cast of photographed in north-west corner of Macellum.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to Dwyer, described as victim no. 15, this plaster cast was a woman of mature age.
She had been found lying face down on her stomach and half-clothed, her arms stretched before her.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of Michigan Press: (p.106-7)
According to Garcia y Garcia, she was known as victim no.14.
This victim was recovered from near the Porta Stabia on 11th October 1889.
She had fallen face down but was always displayed as if she was found lying on her back.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di
guerra a Pompei. Rome:
L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 193-4, Figg. 451-3).
Near them were found the impressions of some trees, one of which it was possible to cast. Its height is 3.40m, and the diameter of the trunk is about 0.40m.
See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1889 (p. 369 and p. 407)
It proved to be a laurel which bears round fruit in the autumn, adding weight to Ruggiero’s (and Fiorelli’s) conviction that the volcano had erupted on 23rd November and not 24th August.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of Michigan Press: (p.106)
Victim number 15 found on 11th October 1889 at Stabian Gate.
Plaster cast of victim numbered 15 by Dwyer, and 14 by Garcia y Garcia, a woman of mature age.
Exhibit from the Summer 2015 exhibition in the amphitheatre.
Victim number 15. July 2011. Detail from plaster cast on display in north-west corner of Macellum.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to Dwyer, this plaster cast was a woman of mature age.
She had been found lying face down on her stomach and half-clothed, her arms stretched before her.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of Michigan Press: (p.106-7)
Pompeii. May 2018. Plaster cast of victim numbered 15.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to Garcia y Garcia, she was known as victim no.14.
This victim was recovered from near the Porta Stabia on 11th October 1889.
She had fallen face down but was always displayed as if she was found lying on her back.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 193-4, Figg. 451-3).
Victim numbered 15, September 2015. Display of plaster-casts in the atrium of VI.17.42.
Victim number 15. July 2011.
Detail from plaster cast numbered 15 photographed on display in north-west corner of Macellum, found near Stabian Gate.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Victim number 15. April 2010. Detail from plaster cast on display in north-west corner of Macellum.
Found near Stabian Gate. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.