(16 Apr 2025)
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Pompeii, Italy – 15 April 2025
1. Various of two life-size sculptures of woman and man recently found at Pompeii
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the archaeological park of Pompeii:
“These two sculptures were actually found quite recently outside the ancient city of Pompeii as part of a funeral monument, and they’re now in the exhibition, but they’re also being restored during the exhibition and this is for us also an opportunity to let people see how archaeology works, functions, behind the scenes.”
3. Mid of 1st century AD marble statue of Venus (left) and 1st AD century marble female head (right)
4. Close of marble female head
5. Various of cast of female victim of eruption
6. Various of gold rings that belonged to victim
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the archaeological park of Pompeii:
“So, we want to open a new window onto the site. You can visit the exhibition and then go to the site with different eyes, see the frescoes, the rooms in the houses where many people lived: men, slaves, but women also, of course, and girls. And you can think about how was it to live in that time, so far away in this very different culture.”
8. Wide of 1st century high relief and two 2nd century AD frescoes depicting women
9. Close of fresco depicting women
10. Mid of bone and gold and amber hairpins
11. Close of gold and amber hairpin
12. Mid of ointment jars, bone plate with woman’s profile, jar with bone hairpins and bone comb
13. Close of bone comb
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesca Ghedini, Professor Emeritus in Archaeology at the University of Padua and curator of exhibit:
“The origin of this exhibition is research into how women lived in the ancient world. This exhibition is somewhat a continuation of the exhibition that Gabriel Zuchtriegel and colleagues from the (Archaeological) Park of Pompeii curated last year, which was called ‘The Other Pompeii’ whose aim was to give a voice to the voiceless. ‘The other Pompeii’ was dedicated to the ‘humiliores’ (in Latin, low-ranking citizens), this one is dedicated to women. Roman women did have some sort of voice, a faint voice that we have tried to capture and reconstruct.”
15. Various of 1st and 2nd century AD frescoes depicting women
16. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesca Ghedini, Professor Emeritus in Archaeology at the University of Padua and curator of exhibit:
“In Pompeii, there were all types (of women), in fact the result of this exhibition is that those who come out of it have seen all types of women, both in the family sphere, i.e. wives, mothers, daughters and concubines, and in the social sphere, ingénues, freedwomen and slaves, as well as in the professional sphere because alongside businesswomen, such as Eumachia, such as Julia Felix, such as Asellina, who was her own businesswoman, we have bakers, weavers, spinners and the prostitutes who were many in Pompeii, as in all Roman cities.”
17. Close of 1st century AD gold necklace and earrings, and a fragment of a fresco depicting the face of a woman
18. Tilt up of woman’s head in marble
19. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesca Ghedini, Professor Emeritus in Archaeology at the University of Padua and curator of exhibit:
20. Close of ‘Lena’, 1st century AD fresco
21. Tilt up from gold jewellery to marble statue and ‘Lena’ fresco
22. Close of gold snake bracelet
23. Various of bronze vaginal speculum
24. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesca Ghedini, Professor Emeritus in Archaeology at the University of Padua and curator of exhibit:
25. Various of clay statue of Demeter, 2nd century AD
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