Pompeii’s Indian Statuette

The Ancients

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Among Pompeii’s great wealth of surviving artefacts is one with a rich globe trotting history that only goes to emphasise the interconnected nature of the ancient world: the Pompeii Lakshmi, a small statuette originally crafted in India. But what do we know about this object? Does it really depict Lakshmi? How might it have reached Pompeii? Where in India do we think it was crafted? Laura Weinstein came on the podcast to answer all these questions and talk through what we know about this iconic object.

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0:00.0	It's the ancients on History Hit, I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast
0:08.8	where we are going back to that extraordinary ancient site that is Pompeii.
0:13.4	But today we're going to be focusing in on one specific artifact from there, an Indian
0:19.2	Statueette discovered in the early 20th century.
0:23.1	The so-called Pompeii large me.
0:25.7	But there are so many questions that still surround this statueette.
0:30.4	What do we think its function was?
0:32.5	Where in India do we think it was originally crafted?
0:35.6	And how did it end up?
0:37.8	Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles away from where it was originally crafted in
0:42.0	Pompeii, in the central Mediterranean?
0:45.6	What answer all of these questions and more?
0:47.4	I was delighted to be joined on the podcast by Laura Weinstein.
0:51.5	Laura she dialled in from Italy.
0:54.0	She's been working on this statueette for a few years now.
0:56.5	She's recently submitted a paper all about it.
1:00.2	So that further ado, here's Laura.
1:05.2	Laura, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the podcast.
1:17.6	Thank you.
1:18.6	I'm really excited to be here.
1:19.8	Now we're talking about an incredible object from Pompeii.
1:23.0	Pompeii follow these incredible artifacts, but this statue, this mini statue, Laura, it
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