Pompeii Casts. Victim 58 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 58 is number 13.
See De Caro S.,
1979. Scavi nell’area fuori Porta
Nola a Pompei: Cronache Pompeiane V, (p. 62, fig. 1).
Victim 58. 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
Victim 58. Cast #58 and pXRF
measuring points (1–6).
Photo courtesy of The Casts of Pompeii Project. Use
subject to CC BY 4.0 Deed
The
cast #58 (Fig 4) is an adult individual (20–25 years old) identified as a male.
This was divided into 7 parts before its restoration. This cast appears to
preserve the morphology of the right ear.
Individual
#58 also presents hypoplasia in the left lateral incisor and dental wear on the
lower left lateral incisor, and also an enthesophyte of the left patella.
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 4. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289378
Victim 58 is an adult male aged over 20 years.
The body was found outside Porta Nola, near the tomb of M. Obellius Firmus, between the 2nd of August and the 21st of September 1976.
It seems we can distinguish some traces of clothing on the victim's torso
and legs.
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. 457-8, Calco n. 58.
Porta Nola Pompeii. 1976-9. Casts of victim 58, left, and victim numbered as 14 on the De Caro plan, right, found above the road surface by the tomb of Obellius Firmus.
A tree also appears to have been cast.
Photograph © Parco Archeologico di Pompei.