I.21.6 Pompeii. Garden of the Fugitives. L’Orto dei fuggiaschi.

Excavated 1961-2, 1973-4.

Originally, in the 1950’s this Insula was numbered as Reg. I, Insula 16.

Quick Outline

This page has been created to give a quick appreciation of the main rooms and areas of the interesting property known as Garden of the fugitives (I.21.6) without the need to navigate the many detailed pages of photographs. Attached to this garden was the house at I.21.2.

Detail

If you are then interested to see these areas in more detail, the rooms are shown in greater detail in the subsequent parts, followed by the 1961 Jashemski photos, and the Jashemski excavations in 1973 and 1974

Detailed photos

I.21.6 Pompeii. December 2007. Room housing plaster casts of 13 bodies, previously the area of rooms 13 and 14, see below.

According to PPM –

Of the two rooms in the south-east corner of the garden (13 and 14), probably servants’ rooms, hardly anything remains.

Here are conserved the plaster-casts of the bodies of some victims of the eruption, which have given the garden the name of “Orto dei fuggiaschi” (Garden of the fugitives).

See Carratelli, G. P., 1990-2003. Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. II (2). Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, (p.1084).

I.21.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Information card. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

I.21.6 Pompeii. April 2019. Looking along plaster-casts of bodies. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.21.6 Pompeii. 1961. Press photo. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

The rear of the photo has the title “Victims of the eruption, 69AD”.

(Note, wrong date).

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of a plaster cast. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster casts of impressions of two bodies.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of plaster casts of impression of bodies. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of a plaster cast of an impression of a body. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster impression of a head of a child victim.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster casts of impressions of bodies.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of plaster cast of the impression of a body. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.6 Pompeii. October 2024. Detail of three plaster-casts of impressions of victims. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster casts of impressions of bodies.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of a plaster cast of impression of a body.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of plaster casts of the impression of bodies.  Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.5, Pompeii. 1961. Plaster-casts of fugitives recently found.

A newspaper report at the time reported the finding of eight bodies.

Two families were reported, supposedly of market gardeners, with one family found nearby the other.

One family was made up of the parents and two children, preceded by a man carrying a sack on his shoulders.

The second family consisted of a man also carrying a sack, a woman and child.

The three in this photo were reported as being from the family of five.

The mother was said to be on the right, the father to the left and the child in the foreground.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster cast of impression of a body.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster cast of impression of a body.

I.21.2/6 Pompeii. October 2024. Looking north from vantage point at south end of insula. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

I.21.2/6 Pompeii. April 2019. Looking north from vantage point at south end of insula. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

I.21.6 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-west across garden. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.21.6 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south-west towards triclinium in garden. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.21.2/6 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south towards triclinium in Fugitives Garden.

I.21.2/6 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking south-east across triclinium in Fugitives Garden, see also I.21.6.

I.21.2/6 Pompeii. 1974. Looking south-east across triclinium in garden area. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.  

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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I.21.2 Pompeii. May 2017.

Looking south from doorway towards the Fugitives’ Garden, replanted as a vineyard. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.2 Pompeii. May 2005. Looking north-east from Fugitives Garden, towards doorway leading to atrium.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to south, triclinium and garden area.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015. Doorway to cubiculum on south end of east wall.

I.21.2 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking towards east wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015. South-east corner, with two doorways to cubicula.

I.21.2 Pompeii. May 2017. East wall of cubiculum. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015. South wall, and doorway to triclinium and garden area.

I.21.2 Pompeii. June 2005. Dolia on west side. Photo courtesy of Nicolas Monteix.

I.21.2 Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking towards west wall, dolia and puteal. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

I.21.2 Pompeii. May 2017. Looking south-west across large vat/basin against west wall. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015. South-west corner of atrium.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking towards north-west corner of atrium, with doorway to entrance corridor on the right.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015.

Doorway with two stone steps, and wooden stairs that would have led to an upper floor.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015. Looking east across atrium, from west side.

I.21.2 Pompeii. September 2015.

Looking north across atrium, towards entrance doorway, in centre, leading out onto Via della Palestra.

I.21.2 Pompeii. December 2018. Looking south to entrance doorway. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.

Via della Palestra, south side, Pompeii. December 2018.

Looking west from junction with Vicolo dei Fuggiaschi, on left, from I.21.5 towards I.21.1, on right. Photo courtesy of Aude Durand.