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The Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79 CE. It was found by Amedeo Maiuri, an Italian scholar, in 1938. [1] The statuette has been dated to the first-century CE. [2]
Villa Poppaea: caldarium of the private baths. Poppaea Sabina the Younger was born in Pompeii in AD 30 as the daughter of Titus Ollius and Poppaea Sabina the Elder. [3] At birth and for most of her childhood she went by her proper patronymic nomen "Ollia", belonging to women of her father's gens, the Ollii, but at some point, probably before her first marriage, decided to start going by her ...
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
While many bodies have been previously discovered in Pompeii, this discovery is unique. It marks one of the few times archeologists are able to designate a body with a place of work or a home.
The bodies of a man and a woman have been unearthed in Pompeii, along with a cache of coins and precious jewelry, archaeologists say.
The House of the Centenary (Italian Casa del Centenario, also known as the House of the Centenarian) was the house of a wealthy resident of Pompeii, preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The house was discovered in 1879, [1] and was given its modern name to mark the 18th centenary of the disaster. [2]
An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
It was found in the remains of an inn, [5] on the body of a woman aged about 30 at the time of her death. [4] The bodies of another adult woman and three children were found alongside her. [4] It is likely that they were fleeing Pompeii following the earthquakes which preceded the eruption of Vesuvius, and were killed at the beginning of the ...