HGW04a Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate West Side. Tomb of Gens Istacidia.

(Eschebach does not list separately from West 4, Kockel Süd 4A).

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HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Doorway on south side, looking east.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the tomb, looking west.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the Tomb of Gens Istacidia. South-west corner.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the tomb, looking north.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the tomb, looking north.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006.  Inside the Tomb of Gens Istacidia. East upper wall.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the Tomb of Gens Istacidia. East wall.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the Tomb of Gens Istacidia. Floor at east end.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the Tomb of Gens Istacidia. North-east corner.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Inside the Tomb of Gens Istacidia. South-east corner.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. South side with doorway, looking west.

HGW04a Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west along south side.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Fragment of stonework near tomb.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east along north side.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. West end of the tomb.

HGW04a Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east along south side.

HGW04a Pompeii. Cippus with inscription C VENERIVS EPAPHRODITVS.

C(aius) Venerius

Epaphroditus       [CIL X 1013]

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.

HGW04a Pompeii.  1777 drawing of tomb and masks by Sir William Hamilton.

Hamilton gave the following descriptions:

A. View of a great sepulchre, or columbarium, out of the gates of the city:

several marble statues, not very well executed, were found therein, which are now in the Museum at Portici.

B. Colossal masks of terra cotta, in the situation in which they were found.

C. C. Under them in vaults were found some sepulchral urns with ashes therein.

One of the urns was of glass, with a cover of the same material;

This urn was deposited in an earthen one, and that again covered with lead, which is now preserved in the Museum at Portici.

D. Uncleared parts of the city.

See Hamilton, W., 1777. Account of the Discoveries at Pompeii. London: Bowyer and Nichols. (p. 14, pl. IX).

HGW04a Pompeii. c.1780 drawing of rear of tomb.

HGW04a Pompeii.  1809-11. Schola Tomb of Mamia. Drawing by Mazois.

According to Mazois “The drawing offers the sight of the tomb of Mamia on the side of the sepulcretum; one can notice on the right, in the wall which separates this place from the street, several heads of animals encrusted, and which seem intentionally put to form a manner of decoration rather suitable at a place devoted to the burials. In the surroundings were several vault openings. It was impossible for me to find them”

See Mazois, F., 1812. Les Ruines de Pompei: Premiere Partie. Paris: Didot Frères. (p. 28, Pl. X).

HGW04a Pompeii. 1824-27 view of the rear of the tomb of Mammia by P. Fumagalli.

See Fumagalli P., Pompeia, trattato pittorico, storico, e geometrico, opera disegnata negli anni 1824 al 1830. Firenze, p. 34-5 e tavolo non numerato.

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