Perfume bottle and child’s necklace among treasures found in Pompeii wardrobe
Summary
Archaeologists found personal items, coins, cooking vessels and other objects inside a wooden wardrobe in a Pompeii home. Among them was a child’s charm necklace, called a crepundia, which could help parents keep track of children and identify them.Key Facts
- The wardrobe was found in a home on Via dell’Abbondanza, a busy street in Pompeii.
- The objects included tweezers, a glass perfume bottle, an incense burner and a bronze lantern.
- The crepundia necklace had more than 20 charms made from different materials and depicting figures including the gods Bes and Mercury.
- Archaeologists also found 38 bronze coins, cooking pots and a wooden box with lead weights, which may indicate that a resident was a tradesperson.
- Pompeii Archaeological Park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel said the money and personal belongings may have been left behind when residents fled the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
- The home had been linked to a person named Cornelius Maximus based on inscriptions, and its facade was first excavated in 1912.
- Excavations are also underway in the servants’ quarters at the Villa of the Mysteries to learn more about daily life and the household economy.
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