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Best Books about Pompeii

 
Plaster Cast at the Caupona Pherusa
Plaster Cast from Pompeii
Background Information
Where to see them
Pompeii Antiquarium
Garden of the Fugitives
Stabian Thermal Baths
Horrea and Olitorium
Macellum
Villa of the Mysteries
Caupona Pherusa
House of the Four Styles
Region I
Porta Nocera
Boscoreale Antiquarium
Historical Information
Younger Pliny's letters
Seneca's describes AD 62 earthquake
Gautier short story about Pompeii

Early account of making plaster casts

Charles Dickens describes Pompeii
Mark Twain describes Pompeii
William Dean Howells describes Pompeii
WW2 bombing of Pompeii
Visiting Pompeii and vicinity
visiting Pompeii
visiting Herculaneum
visiting Mt. Vesuvius
Further Information
books about Pompeii
touring Pompeii exhibitions
websites about Pompeii

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Caupona Pherusa is a tavern located on the eastern end of Via dell'Abbondanza near the Porta Sarno. Although no bodies were found in the tavern, one plaster cast is currently on exhibit there, behind the locked front gate.

 

The Caupona Pherusa on the eastern end of the via dell'Abbondanza

The plaster cast displayed at the caupona pherusa

(Thank you, Rick Bauer, for the photos and information about the cast.)

 

 

For more information about the plaster casts of Pompeii, read Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii

 

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