Pompeii Casts. Victim 61 found outside the Porta Nola between the 2nd of August and the 21st of September 1976.
NGOF Pompeii. 1979. Plan of location of 15 bodies found by the tomb of Obellius Firmus. Plan after Stefano De Caro.
Victim 61 is number 6.
See De Caro S.,
1979. Scavi nell’area fuori Porta
Nola a Pompei: Cronache Pompeiane V, (p. 62, fig. 1).
Victim 61. Location
of casts from Porta Nola.
(a)
Original position of some of the studied Porta Nola casts (#57, #62, #58, #54,
#55). (b) Map of Pompeii. (c) Detail of casts discovery area (I: Burials of
Praetorians; II: Modern Masonries; III: Tomb of Obellius Firmus; IV: Porta
Nola; V: Leakpan; VI: Tomb of Esquilia
Polla; VII: Anonymous Tomb).
Photo courtesy of The Casts of
Pompeii Project. Use subject to CC BY 4.0 Deed
See Alapont L, Gallello G,
Martinón-Torres M, Osanna M, Amoretti V, Chenery S,
et al. (2023) The casts of Pompeii: Post-depositional methodological
insights. PLoS ONE 18(8): e0289378, Fig
1. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289378
Porta Nola Pompeii. Press photo dated 18th September 1976 of body casts "Discovered this week on the outskirts of Pompeii".
The photo has been touched in in places for publication so it is difficult to be certain but comparing with the plan above could suggest: victim 56 rear to the left? Victim 57 with arm outstretched? Victim 61 on the lower right? Victim number 5, with the sheathed knife, recorded by De Caro would have been in this group also.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Victim 61 was an adult male aged over 20 years.
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. 463-4, Calco n. 61.
Nola Gate Tombs, Pompeii, March 2009. View from above. Large iron knife in a bronze and wooden sheath.
Found near Porta Nola in 1976. SAP inventory number 17047.
Man no. 5 had on the left a sheathed dagger (fig. 27) and the scabbard (fig. 28) empty of a second smaller blade: at the feet shoes with a nailed sole.
See De Caro S.,
1979. Scavi nell’area fuori Porta Nola a
Pompei: Cronache Pompeiane V, p. 99, fig. 27.