Pompeii Casts. Victim 11, found on 28th December 1882, in VIII.6.6 or 5.
The man with two keys.
Found at a height of approximately four metres from the original soil level.
Victim 11 is an adult male aged over 20 years old.
The identification of the body with that discovered in the
garden VIII.6.5 is hypothetical due to the body not exactly matching the
description by the architect, Luigi Fulvio who followed the creation of the
cast, which was also discordant from the one published in NdS 1882.
The body was discovered between the 23rd and 29th of December 1882.
The imprint of a thick and high belt closed with a buckle at the waist is
evident.
Two iron keys were found near the victim.
See Osanna, N.,
Capurso, A., e Masseroli, S. M., 2021. I Calchi di Pompei da Giuseppe
Fiorelli ad oggi: Studi e Ricerche del PAP 46, p. 342-3, Calco n.11.
Known as Victim 11, as this was the 12th to be successfully cast, and it was exhibited in the Antiquarium for some years.
He was found on 28th December 1882, at a height of approximately four metres from the original soil level.
According to Dwyer, he had been fleeing along the top of the cinders at the time of his death.
He was found above the south-west corner of a garden, now numbered as VIII.6.6.
Near him were found two iron keys.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of Michigan Press: (p.103), the twelfth victim: the man with two keys.
Garcia y Garcia gives the plaster cast number as 16.
See Garcia y
Garcia, L., See Garcia y García, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.194).
According to NdS –
“Insula 7, Reg. VIII. Inside and to the right of the fourth entrance on the north side, counting from the north-west, and at a height of about four metres from the soil, there appeared a human skeleton, of which was cast a model in gesso. Although the genitals do not appear, because they did not turn out, it seems from the features to be a man who, having fallen on his back, lies with his legs drawn up, his right hand to his breast, and his left arm somewhat raised. Near him were found two small iron keys, poorly preserved.”
See Notizie degli Scavi, 10, (1881-1882); p.606, (28th December 1862).
Victim 11. September 2015. Collection of plaster-casts in the atrium of VI.17.42.
Victim 11 photographed by Giorgio Sommer. Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.
VII.9.7 and VII.9.8 Pompeii. July 2011. Plaster cast in north-west corner of Macellum. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Known as Victim 11, as this was the 12th to be successfully cast, and it was exhibited in the Antiquarium for some years.
He was found on 28th December 1882, at a height of approximately four metres from the original soil level.
According to Dwyer, he had been fleeing along the top of the cinders at the time of his death.
He was found above the south-west corner of a garden, now numbered as VIII.6.6.
Near him were found two iron keys.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of Michigan Press: (p.103)
Garcia y Garcia gives the plaster cast number as 16.
See Garcia y Garcia, L., See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.194)
VII.9.7 and VII.9.8 Pompeii. July 2011. Detail of plaster cast of victim 11 photographed in north-west corner of Macellum.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.9.7 and VII.9.8 Pompeii. July 2011. Detail of upper part of plaster cast of victim 11 photographed in north-west corner of Macellum.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.9.7 and VII.9.8 Pompeii. April 2010.
Detail of head of plaster cast of victim 11, photographed in north-west corner of Macellum. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
VII.9.7 and VII.9.8 Pompeii. May 2004. Victim 11 (front) in display case in Macellum.
VII.9.7 and VII.9.8 Pompeii. July 2011. North-west corner of Macellum, with plaster casts.
On the left is the glass case containing victim 11. On the right is the glass case containing victim 14.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Photo courtesy of David Hingston.