Pompeii Casts. Victim 48 found on the stairs of the House of Fabius Rufus in November 1961.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking out from staircase, onto a garden area.
A plaster cast of a victim is still at the foot of the stairs.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking down the stairs towards a plaster cast of body lying at foot of staircase.
Four people met their death in this house, three of them died huddled together on this staircase.
They were discovered in November 1961. It was possible to make casts of the group of three.
A copy of the plaster cast of the lowest of the three bodies remains where it was discovered.
The fourth skeleton was lying on the landing at the bottom of the stairs but only a photo remains of this skeleton.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. May 2006.
Looking up towards the stairs where a group of fugitives were found, and where one still lies at the foot of staircase.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. 1961. Casts of three victims at the base of the stairs as shown on Boscoreale Antiquarium information board.
Victim 48 is at the top, Calco H is below and victim 49 is
at the bottom.
Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.
Victim 48 from VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. September 2015. Exhibit from the Summer 2015 exhibition in the amphitheatre.
Plaster cast of uppermost victim found huddled together with the others on the stairs that led to the ground floor.
The victim was male, aged 14-20 years or more.
The body was spread over three steps of the stairs. Its left leg covered the head and part of the upper body of Calco H.
The body of victim 48, overall, appears artificial and nowhere do natural anatomical details appear.
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.432-3, Calco n. 48.
VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. September 2015. Exhibit from the Summer 2015 exhibition in the amphitheatre.
Plaster cast of victim 48, on left, found huddled together with the others on the stairs that led to the ground floor.
Victim 48. May 2012. Looking west towards a plaster cast made of victim, on display in oecus.
Photo courtesy of Marina Fuxa.
A plaster cast of victim 48, is on display in the case.