Pompeii Casts. Victim 85. Male? The date and place of discovery is unknown.

I.8.17 Pompeii. June 2010. Room 10, plaster casts of victim 85 (rear right) and victim 84 (front). Looking east. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

Victim 85 is probably a male, aged over 20 years.

The date and place of discovery is unknown.

The right leg seems to still be attached to the body and part of the head can be seen.

Two hypotheses are put forward:

1.   It is possible it may come from I.21.2/6, the Orto dei Fuggiaschi, recorded in the excavation diary on the 10th of April 1961.

2.   It may be a cast made in 1902 during the excavation of the taberna V.3.2. Three casts were made, and all were recorded as unsuccessful (malriusciti).

This could be the second of the casts recorded in 1902 as being only a portion of the trunk.

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, pp. 515-6, Calco n. 85.

Paribeni in NdS 1902, records: In fact, on the following 10th June only the cast of an arm with the upper part of the chest and the head emerged from a skeleton; of another, a portion of the trunk, and of a third, the almost complete cast. All these casts, however, due to the void being occupied in many places by lapilli, were very unclear and such that no value could be attributed to them.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1902, p. 379.

I.8.17 Pompeii. December 2007. Room 10, plaster casts of victims 85 (rear) and 84 (front).

I.8.17 Pompeii. June 2010. Room 10, plaster casts with victim 85 (left). Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.8.17 Pompeii. 1968. Casa dei Quattro Stili, cubiculum NE of atrium, cast of victim 85 from above. 

This cast is not from this house.

Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.

American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_68_14_25.

I.8.17 Pompeii. June 2010. Looking into room 10 doorway with victims 84 and 85 inside.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.