Pompeii Casts. Victim numbered 1, plaster-cast made in 1863, from Vicolo degli Scheletri.
Victim 1 is an adult male, over 20 years of age.
The body was found on 3rd February 1863, in the vicolo degli Scheletri, at the crossroads with vicolo della Maschera.
There is the presence of drapery on the head, bust, waist, hips and, perhaps, the right thigh, hypothetically referable to a tunic.
Said to be found with casts numbered 2 and 3, a small distance from cast number 4.
The location of the other three victims found near no. 1 was not precisely reported: these were casts no. 2, 3, 4.
In particular, victims 2 and 3 were 10 palms (about 2.5m) from the corner of insulae 10 and 13 of Regio VII.
Fiorelli, in the Giornale di Napoli, simply stated that they were not far from where the first victim was (n.1).
In fact, no. 4 was located about 25m from the other three bodies.
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. 315-7, Calco n. 1.
![Victim numbered 1, photographed by Michele Amodio. Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.
In his description of this plaster-cast in his Guida di Pompei, 1877, Fiorelli described –
“Man, [no.1], fallen in the lapilli, which does not preserve the impression of the back or of the right arm. The swelling of the stomach is due to a piece of ash having broken off at the time when the gesso was formed. (Reg.VII, insula IX, via quarta).
See Fiorelli, Guida di Pompei, [Rome, 1877,] p.88-89.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Ann Arbor: Univ of Michigan Press, (p.93).](victim%201_files/image001.jpg)
Victim numbered 1, photographed by Michele Amodio. Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.
In his description of this plaster-cast in his Guida di Pompei, 1877, Fiorelli described –
“Man, [no.1], fallen in the lapilli, which does not preserve the impression of the back or of the right arm.
The swelling of the
stomach is due to a piece of ash having broken off at the time when the gesso
was formed. (Reg.VII,
insula IX, via quarta).
See Fiorelli, Guida di Pompei, [Rome,
1877,] p.88-89.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (p.93).
Victim 1. Found 5th Feb 1863. G. Sommer photo no. 1243.
Photo courtesy of Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, inventory number St.F.989.
Victim 1. Found 5th Feb 1863. G. Sommer and E. Behles photo no. 1243.
This copy was acquired in 1864 as a gift from Julius Ziegler
by the Städel Museum.
Photo courtesy of Städel Museum,
Frankfurt am Main, inventory number St.F.989.
Victim 1, photographed by Brogi (no. 5575) in a display case in the museum. Photo courtesy of Eugene Dwyer.
Victim 1 in lower picture and victims 2 and 3 in upper picture.
VII.1.47 Pompeii. April 2019. Victims 1, on right, and victim 4, on left.
Plaster casts on display in triclinium 8, these were found in the Vicolo degli Scheletri, and not in this house.
Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
VII.1.47 Pompeii. May 2017. Victim 1.
Plaster cast of large, strong male on display in triclinium 8 but found in the Vicolo degli Scheletri.
Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.
VII.1.47 Pompeii. March 2017. Room 8, looking across plaster-casts
towards window in east wall.
The plaster-cast of victims 1 and 4 can be seen in the centre of
the photograph, below them are the fractured remains of the plaster-cast of
victim 2.
They were found in the Vicolo degli Scheletri.