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May 15, 2020 • 12 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
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This fabulous documentary explores the recent excavations in Region V in #Pompeii. It really brings together our understanding of the individual finds but also of the neighbourhood. Brilliant and compelling viewing. @pompeii_sites @MassimoOsanna
https://t.co/iFeViWHjlh
Didn’t think I’d be adding to this thread for a while but thanks to @MassimoOsanna a fabulous and previously unseen fresco from Region V excavations in #Pompeii has been revealed: Ariadne being abandoned by Theseus on the shores of Naxos. Wow.
Images: instagram.com/p/CHvqzLopq3W/… ImageImageImageImage
A close-up of that extraordinary decorative design...
A fuller picture of the Ariadne and Theseus fresco that was found in 2018 but only revealed yesterday by @MassimoOsanna. Those decorative vertical motifs are even more exquisite in full.
And for further details on this read @tomkington’s article (behind a paywall) below. Image
Extraordinary frescoes of animals revealed on the side of the bar counter in #Pompeii Region V that was partially excavated in 2019. The dog straining at the leash is incredible as the detail of the hen’s plumage. Two ducks await to be cooked.
Photos: Luigi Spina | @pompeii_sites ImageImageImageImage
In true Pompeian style there’s a crude graffito scratched in the plaster possibly referring to the owner of the bar, a Greek called Nicia. It reads “Nicia cineade cavatore” that translates as “Nicia shameless shitter”. Got to love bar banter.
Photo: Luigi Spina | @pompeii_sites ImageImage
For more detailed information about this latest and astonishing discovery read here: pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/…
A lovely detail of the two ducks draped over a cloth. Their little webbed feet sticking up are a delight.
Photo Luigi Spina | @pompeii_sites Image
The Pompeians were not shy of their love of a fresco of dead birds awaiting to be cooked... ImageImageImageImage
Fascinating discoveries being made with regards the remains of food found in the sunken containers within the bar. Evidence of a duck bone, swine, goat, fish and land snails have so far been identified.
An amazingly diverse menu.
Info courtesy of @MassimoOsanna on Instagram Image
I also love that the reddish leather collar in #Pompeii seems to be standard canine attire. Studs (?) an optional extra.

Image 4: Luigi Spina ImageImageImageImage
Genuinely thrilled to know when I visited Region V excavations in #Pompeii back in 2018 and was delighting at seeing the phallic sign, that I was standing on the volcanic debris just metres above the incredible frescoed bar which had yet to be uncovered.
Image 2: @pompeii_sites ImageImage

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Oct 8, 2022
The Roman villa at Positano - another casualty of the AD 79 eruption and buried under metres of ash and pyroclastic material. That green background colour is a sheer delight and the ghostly white stucco figures and animals added to the fresco are in relief and pop out at you.
The sheer force of the eruption captured for perpetuity in the collapse of the wall and roof as well as in the crack in the wall painting like a fault line that shifts the upper part of the wall laterally. And in all of that the wooden door survived—the void now cast in plaster.
The Roman villa lies under the church & access to it is through the room lined with 18th century putrefying stalls where dead bodies were placed in order to drain them before burial. The display is exceptional & sympathetic to both the eras of history in this small space.
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Nov 30, 2021
Sad to hear of the recent death of architect Nicholas Wood. I worked with him in Pompeii and his watercolours recreated the magic of the Roman houses we were studying. He even incorporated me as a human scale (past and present) for the cross-section of the House of Ceres
He worked with us on the House of Amarantus in which we were excavating and produced this plan of our discovery of the mule and dog in the front room and the Cretan wine amphorae stacked in the atrium. The mule & dog are featured in our Amarantus book cambridgescp.com/Array/buy-book
His interest in Pompeii was boundless and he was best known for his model of the House of the Tragic Poet which he recreated with eye-watering attention to detail.
I sincerely hope the model found a good home… theclassicslibrary.com/house-of-the-t… @StephenJenkin
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Oct 24, 2021
Was it on this day in AD 79 that Vesuvius erupted and buried #Pompeii, #Herculaneum and the other Vesuvian sites in volcanic debris?

Probably!
Evidence such as ripe pomegranates and the remnants of a recent grape harvest in wine-pressing rooms found in the ancient Vesuvian sites certainly suggest an autumnal date rather than the traditional August date recorded in a medieval copy of Pliny’s account of the eruption.
A charcoal inscription uncovered in #Pompeii contains the date ‘XVI K Nov’—16 days before the Kalends of Nov—equating to 17th Oct. No year is mentioned but the impermanence of charcoal suggests it *may* have been written close to the time of eruption.
Image: @MassimoOsanna
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Jun 1, 2021
So I went to the #NeroExhibition @britishmuseum... Image
You cannot have a #NeroExhibition without the back story. Cue Augustus (and his swooshy locks), Caligula (and his cute eyelashes) and a few of the other Julio-Claudians before we meet the protagonist: Nero. #NeroExhibition ImageImageImageImage
From a curtain fringe to full on foppish curls (and a fuller chin) #NeroExhibition ImageImageImageImage
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Apr 26, 2020
A very brief history of Pompeii in plans:
Historically, the hill that covered the ancient city of #Pompeii was known as ‘La Civita’ – the settlement.
Gaultier 1754
raremaps.com/gallery/detail…
#cartography @_MiBACT #viaggioinitalia #ArTyouReady #paesaggioitaliano
While excavation of #Pompeii was in its infancy plans of the city were being made and I love that they are barely identifiable as being the ancient city we see today.
Lapatie 1776
Piranesi 1792 (detail)
La Vega 1800

#cartography for @_MiBACT #viaggioinitalia
Under the auspices of French rule at the start of the 19th cent, excavations in #Pompeii opened up huge swathes of the ancient site & the city walls were uncovered revealing the extent of the urban area.
Unknown 1800
De Jorio 1825

#cartography for @_MiBACT #viaggioinitalia
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Apr 1, 2020
A really lovely series of short films dealing with various aspects of #Pompeii featuring a lot of unseen footage from the new excavations in Region V.
In French but the images speak volumes.
Courtesy of @Inrap_ActuGE & via @rogueclassicist
inrap.fr/mediatheque/re…
This fabulous documentary explores the recent excavations in Region V in #Pompeii. It really brings together our understanding of the individual finds but also of the neighbourhood. Brilliant and compelling viewing. @pompeii_sites @MassimoOsanna
https://t.co/iFeViWHjlh
Didn’t think I’d be adding to this thread for a while but thanks to @MassimoOsanna a fabulous and previously unseen fresco from Region V excavations in #Pompeii has been revealed: Ariadne being abandoned by Theseus on the shores of Naxos. Wow.
Images: instagram.com/p/CHvqzLopq3W/… ImageImageImageImage
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