Pompeii Casts. Victim 27. Female victim, found in Vicolo di Venere, 8th to 12th September 1933.

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.

Now in III.6.1 Caupona Pherusae (excavated on 11th March 1935).

III.6.1 Pompeii. Caupona Pherusae. September 2005. Victim 27. Found in Vicolo di Venere, 8th to 12th September 1933.

See Giornale degli Scavi 1933, 8-12 settembre 1933.

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. 381.

Luongo records the date as the date of the excavation of the caupona on March 11, 1935

See G. Luongo et al: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 126, (2003), p.185, with reference Arch. Pompei, GS 1935.

III.6.1 Pompeii. Victim 27. Plaster cast of a female, age 20+, found in Vicolo di Venere.

Made between 8 and 12 September 1933 (two years before the excavation of the Caupona), it lay 'face down with its legs twisted, the left hand under the face, the right hand at head height. What adds to the value of this plaster cast is the perfect traces of the folds of the clothing with which the body was covered, the precise profile of the agile and delicate legs, perhaps a young woman.

In the forearm of the right hand the toe of a foot, of the malleolus belonging to a second body, remained inserted, another deformity of limbs was noted between the abdomen and the extremity of the right hand; finally, between the abdomen and the knee of the left leg and remained attached to the last: a small bronze amphora with detached handle". (However, in PAP photo A2239 the handle appears attached to the body of the vessel).

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. 381.

III.6.1 Pompeii. September 2005. Victim 27. Plaster cast of female victim found in Vicolo di Venere, 8th to 12th September 1933.

Originally, she had a small bronze amphora in her hand and, probably, some object high on the right side; in a canvas bag under the left flank there were two bronze coins of Vespasian and Galba, and a small coin with a hardly recognizable imprint.

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. 382.

Victim 27. March 1956. Plaster cast of female victim found in Vicolo di Venere, 8th to 12th September 1933.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

III.6.1 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking across east side of counter and hearth towards glass case with cast of victim 27 in north-east corner of bar-room.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

III.6.1 Pompeii. October 2017. Looking towards glass case with cast of victim 27 and east wall of bar-room.

Foto Taylor Lauritsen, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

III.6.1 Pompeii. May 2017. Victim 27. Plaster cast of a victim found in Vicolo di Venere, 8th to 12th September 1933. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

Bones in view are the top of the skull, arm bones, hand, back.

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. 382.

III.6.1 Pompeii. May 2017. Entrance doorway with cast of victim 27 seen at rear. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.