Pompeii Casts. Victim number 14. A man of mature age.
Found 11th October 1889 outside Porta Stabia towards the right side, on leaving the city.
Found with victim number 13.
Originally identified as female, the victim is now identified as an adult male
of over 20 years of age.
Photo by Esposito, number 118. On the left, victim numbered 14. On the right, victim numbered 13.
Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.
Victims 13 and 14, 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 14. On the right, victim 13.
Pompeii Stabian
Gate. Old postcard by Richter no. 77 of victim 14 (rear) and victim 13 (front).
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Victim 14. July 2011. Plaster cast of photographed in north-west corner of Macellum.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
According to Dwyer, described as victim 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 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).
DNA was extracted and histological
collection from a fragment of the fourth distal phalanx from the right hand was
made.
The victim, now numbered as 14, is now identified
as an adult male of over 20 years of age.
The drapery of the robes stands out especially on the torso, while the
texture of the fabric is legible on the buttocks and thighs.
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.348-9, calco n. 14.
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 14 found on 11th October 1889 at Stabian Gate.
Plaster cast of victim numbered 15 by Dwyer, and 14 by Garcia y Garcia, originally thought to be a woman of mature age but now identified as a male adult.
Exhibit from the Summer 2015 exhibition in the amphitheatre.
Victim 14. 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 originally identified as 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)
The victim is now identified as a male of over 20 years of age.
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.348-9, calco n. 14.
Pompeii. May 2018. Plaster cast of victim 14. Photo
courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
According to Garcia y Garcia, she was known as victim 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 14, September 2015. Plaster-cast during restoration, in the atrium of VI.17.42.
Victim 14. July 2011.
Detail of head and upper body of plaster cast of victim 14 photographed on display in north-west corner of Macellum, but found near Stabian Gate.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Victim number 14. April 2010. Detail of head and arms from plaster cast on display in north-west corner of Macellum.
Found near Stabian Gate. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.