Pompeii Casts. Victim 39 found in I.21.2/6, the Garden of the Fugitives, April 1961.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of plaster casts of the impression of bodies. Victim 39. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

Victim 39 was male over 20 years of age.

Small traces of drapery can be seen on the chin, left shoulder and abdomen.

Victim 39 was found between the 17th and 22nd of April at about 17.9m from the southern wall and approximately 1m from the eastern wall.

The body was found next to victim 35 but oriented in the opposite way.

Near his feet were found victims 36 and 37.

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. 413-415, Calco n. 39.

I.21.6 Pompeii. Identification of locations of victims 35 to 47 on display in I.22.6.

Photo 2000 courtesy of Lancevortex, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. We have added the victim numbers.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster casts of impressions of bodies. Victim 39.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of a plaster cast of impression of a body. Victim 39.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2016. Detail of plaster casts of the head and upper body. Victim 39. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

I.21.6 Pompeii. May 2010. Detail of plaster impression of the head of victim 39.

I.21.5, Pompeii. 1961. Plaster-casts of fugitives recently found. Victim 39, right, victim 36, front, and victim 35 at left rear.

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.