VII.16.17-22 Pompeii. December 2007. Plaster cast of body lying at foot of staircase. Four people met their death in this house, three of them died huddled together on this staircase. They were discovered in November 1961. It was possible to make casts of the group of three. The lowest of the three bodies remains where it was discovered. The fourth skeleton was lying on the landing at the bottom of the stairs but only a photo remains of this skeleton.