House of the Skeleton
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 11, 2025 04:37 PM
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History
The so-called "The House of the Skeleton" at Herculaneum is a Roman domus that owes its name to the discovery of a human skeleton during excavations. Carlo Bonucci initially explored it between 1830 and 1831. Amedeo Maiuri completed the excavation in 1927.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/67912717
40.8062023852, 14.3467852612
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of House of the Skeleton (AD 1 - AD 99) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Casa dello Scheletro (Italian, modern)
- House of the Skeleton located at Herculaneum (unspecified date range)
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townhouse
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Jeffrey Becker, 'House of the Skeleton: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/67912717> [accessed: 23 April 2025]
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