The pages below we know have references to and pictures of skeletons. You may find other pages on the site that we have not managed to identify.
The skeletons include those of the victims, the skeletons of animals, and skeletons portayed in paintings and mosaics etc.
These pages cover Pompeii, Boscoreale, Gragnano, Oplontis, Scafati and Stabiae.
V.3 Termopolio con dipinto di nereidi
Pompeii Villa of the Mosaic Columns p5
Pompeii Villa del fondo Ippolito Zurlo
Pompeii Villa di T. Siminius Stephanus p1
Pompeii Villa di T. Siminius Stephanus p2
Pompeii Villa di T. Siminius Stephanus p3
Boscoreale La villa del Fondo d'Acunzo
Boscoreale Villa rustica in proprietà del Vito Antonio Cirillo
Boscoreale Villa rustica nel Fondo di Antonio Prisco
Boscoreale Villa Pompeiani di Publio Fannio Sinistore p8
Gragnano Villa rustica in Localita Carmiano Villa A
Oplontis Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius p2
Oplontis Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius p4
Scafati Villa rustica in Fondo de Prisco
Scafati Villa Rustica detta di Domitius Auctus
Scafati, Villa rustica in fondo Aquino
See Luongo G., Perrotta A., Scarpati C., De Carolis E., Patricelli G., Ciarallo A., 2002.
Impact of the AD 79 explosive eruption on Pompeii, II. Causes of death of the inhabitants
The appendices each give a very useful list of the corpses found giving the location, date of recovery, number of corpses and the archive references.
Appendix A
Appendix B
There is also an exstensive bibliography
See Dwyer E., 2005. From Fragments to Icons: Stages in the Making and Exhibiting of the Casts of Pompeian Victims, 1863-1888
in Interpreting Ceramics: Issue 8
See also our casts page and casts list