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Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption
Birmingham Museum of Art
Head of an Amazon, marble, mid-1st century AD.
Found at the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, this is one of the best Roman copies of a type of Amazon of the Classical period, called ‘Sciarra’, the original of which is attributed either to the sculptor Kresilas or to Polyclitus.
SAP 80499 (color image)
Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption
Birmingham Museum of Art
Nero as Apollo. 60–79 AD. SAP 85182. Detail of fresco from the north wall of triclinium A in the Building of the Triclinia in Moregine (slightly south of Pompeii).
Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption
Birmingham Museum of Art
Gold necklace, 1st C AD. MANN 111113-111114. This necklace, or catena, is made up of ninety-four ivy leaves of gold foil, joined by small rings—partly covered by small bosses—and fastened with two large, smooth circular bosses. Found in the Vicolo di Thesmus (Alley of Thesmus) in Pompeii.
Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption
Birmingham Museum of Art
Pair of gold snake-shaped armbands. Found in Pompeii.
Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption
Birmingham Museum of Art
Detail of a bronze dining couch with restored wooden parts, 1st C AD. SAP 4270a. Found in the House of the Menander in Pompeii.
Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption
Birmingham Museum of Art
Detail of a cast of a child from the family group found under the stairs in the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii.
Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption
Birmingham Museum of Art
White marble statue of a standing woman dating from the Augustan period (27BC -14AD) with the portrait head reworked in the Tiberian period (14 – 37AD). It is thought that the statue originally depicted a member of the Istacidi family, the owners of the Villa at the time of the eruption, but that it was subsequently adapted to look like Tiberius’ mother, Livia. SAP 4400. This statue was found in the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii.
The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1777
Pierre-Jacques Volaire
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Purchased with funds from the Alcy C. Kendrick Bequest and the State of North Carolina, by exchange.
Photomosiac
Jennifer Stephens
The Via dell'Abbondanza Project
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