Pompeii Casts. Victim 66. 1979. Piglet fallen on its left side. Found in room XVI at Villa Regina Boscoreale.

Villa Regina, Boscoreale. The information card says: The villa was a farm and vineyard. This pig was found in a room of the villa, where it must have sought refuge during the eruption.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

Victim 66 was found in 1979 in the cubiculum, room XVI, at Villa Regina Boscoreale.

It had fallen on its left side.

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. 474-5, Calco n. 66.

Villa Regina, Boscoreale. Pig found in a room of the villa, where it must have sought refuge during the eruption.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum. September 2009.

The cast, although incomplete due to the lack of the left hind leg and the gaps in the right front leg and the abdomen on the left side, is also successful due to the precision of the impression, which faithfully reproduces the details of the hooved legs, the bristles on the back of the animal and the muzzle, from the large nose to the open mouth, from the eyes to the small, pointed ears.

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. 474, Calco n. 66.