Pompeii Casts. Victim 65 found outside the Porta Nola between the 2nd of August 1976 and the 2nd of August 1978.
NGOF Pompeii. 1979.
Plan of location of 15 bodies found by the tomb of Obellius Firmus. Plan after
Stefano De Caro.
We do not know the
location of victim 65 but it is possibly one of the numbers 2, 5, 11, 14 that
we have been unable to identify.
See De Caro S.,
1979. Scavi nell’area fuori Porta
Nola a Pompei: Cronache Pompeiane V, (p. 62, fig. 1).
Victim 65. Location
of casts from Porta Nola. The cast of victim 65 may be one of those represented
by a drawing.
(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 65 was probably young aged 13 to 19 years. Photograph © Parco Archeologico di Pompei.
The sex has not been determined.
The body was found outside the Porta Nola, near the tomb of M. Obellius Firmus, between the 2nd of August 1976 and the 2nd of August 1978.
The cast was unsuccessful, very incomplete and
fragmentary, with undefined surfaces due to the stratigraphic position of the
body, resting on the lapillus layer, as recorded in the Giornale di Scavo.
Prior to restoration in 2015 the cast was in very poor condition, very
incomplete, fragmentary, with complete fractures.
Foto Archivio PAP, neg. 38551(?), 38553
(?) are quoted as references.
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. 472-3, Calco n. 65.