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THE PLASTER CASTS OF FIORELLI
We can see some of the tragic death scenes in the plaster casts made by archaeologists using the Giuseppe Fiorelli’s technique.
The archaeologists poured liquid plaster into the hollows left in the ash when the bodies had decomposed to recreate the figures at the moment of their death.
This technique can be used for any material that decomposes, particularly wood, and has allowed plaster casts to be made of doors, windows, stairs and other parts of the houses in Pompeii.
A recent innovation in this technique has been used to obtain a cast of the body of a woman found in the ruins at Oplontis near Torre Annunziata.
The cast was made using glass fibre, which allowed the skeleton to be seen along with some of the jewels the woman was wearing as she attempted to escape.
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POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
The Forum is a great rectangular square (38 metres of width and 142 metres of lenght) originally paved with tufa; after the earthquake of 62 BC the paving was remade of travertine. A portico in double order, the lower one Doric and the upper one Ionic, surrounded the Forum on three sides, except the northern side. The square was a pedestrian precinct with the service streets blocked through special rocks. The Forum was the political, economic, commercial, religious center of the city. On the southern side of the portico some monumental bases of imperial honorary statues are visible, while along the porticoes there are some statues of nobles citizens. Public, religious ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 8, 1, 9) Ingredients:
- Large joint of Boar
- pinch of black peppercorns
- large pinch of lovage
- large pinch of celery leaves
- large pinch of rue
- pinch of cumin seeds
- pinch of fennel seeds
- pinch of origany
- 1 garlic
- Liquamen (or salt)
- 150 ml passum (or, in this case, pork or chicken stock)
- 100 ml red wine
- 1 tbsp honey
- Starch
Instructions:
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Roast the boar (2 hours for kilo) in oven 180° C. Meanwhile, place all ... continue
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.