I.8.17 Pompeii. 1968. Casa dei Quattro Stili, cubiculum NE of atrium, cast of Calco G from above.
This cast is not from this house but is still in the same room as it was in the Jashemski photograph of 1959 below.
Photo courtesy of Anne Laidlaw.
American Academy in Rome, Photographic Archive. Laidlaw collection _P_68_14_26.
The victim is thought to be a male and
appears to have drapery rolled up at the waist.
There is no record of the find date or location.
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. 554-5, Calco G.
I.8.17 Pompeii. 1959. Plaster cast of Calco
G. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
The Jashemski record says that this
photo was taken in I.8.17 in 1959, but this victim most probably did not come
from this house.
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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Of Calco G there are only photographs.
There is no record of the find date or location.
As the Jashemski photo is dated 1959 it is too early to be from the Garden of the Fugitives which was excavated in 1961.
There is therefore the remote hypothesis that - as for casts 84 and 85 - the cast is the third found in 1902, during the excavation of a taberna (V.3.2), which turned out to be an almost complete cast (although considered unclear). In this case the cast would have been brought to the casa dei Quattro Stili following the excavation of the latter (1937-38).
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. 555, Calco G.
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.