Pompei, Tombe presso la Strada Regia.

Pompeii, Tombs at the Strada Regia.

Excavated 1893.

According to Mau, this was in the Fondo Santilli, more towards the city, immediately south of the road, at the meeting point of the old and the new road.

Bibliography

Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, G35, p. 148.

Ephemeris Epigraphica, Vol. VIII, 1899, p. 87, no. 319, no. 331.

Mau A., Mittheilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung, 1894, p. 65.

Sogliano A., Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1893, p. 335, no. 13.

Sogliano A., Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1894, p. 384, no. 14.

Stefani G., 1998. Pompei oltre la vita: Nuove testimonianze dalle necropoli, p. 91.

Tombs

Claudiae Laudicae      Tutiae Gaiae libertae Licentiae

Pompei, Tombe presso la Strada Regia. Location of tombs. Photo © Google Earth.

Pompei, Tombe presso la Strada Regia. Meeting point of the old and the new road. Photo © Google Earth.

1. Marble columella of Claudiae Laudicae Augusti libertae

Pompei, Tombe presso la Strada Regia. Found in 1883 or a little earlier. Marble columella of Claudiae Laudicae.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 123256.

It was 1m high and 0.26m wide, broken at the top and with a circular hole towards the base.

According to Mau, it was found in the Fondo Santilli, around 1883 or a little earlier, more towards the city, immediately south of the road, at the meeting point of the old and the new road.  It may have been from a monument on the opposite side of the ancient road, facing the tomb now discovered.

See Mittheilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung, 1894, p. 65.

It bore an inscription already published by Novi and reproduced in Ephemeris Epigraphica. Sogliano published it again and confirmed its authenticity and noted that the manuscript copy of Novi was not exact in the distribution of the lines.

See Ephemeris Epigraphica, Vol. VIII, 1899, p. 87, no. 319.

CLAVDIAE

LAVDICAE

AVG • LIB

VIXIT • ANN • LV •

Claudiae

Laudicae

Aug(usti) lib(ertae)

vixit ann(is) LV

Burial of a freedwoman.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1893, p. 334 no. 13.

Cooley translates this as

To Claudia Laudica, freedwoman of Augustus. Lived 55 years.       [EE VIII no. 319]

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, G35, p. 148.

2. Marble columella of Tutiae Gaiae libertae Licentiae

Pompei, Tombe presso la Strada Regia. 1894. Marble columella of Tutiae Licentiae.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 123257.

Found in the same location as the above columella in 1894.

See Mittheilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung, 1894, p. 65, no. 14.

See Ephemeris Epigraphica, Vol. VIII, 1899, no. 331.

In the form of a herm, 0.74m high, 0.20m wide:

TVTIAE  Ɔ  L·

LICENTIAE

Tutiae G(aiae) l(ibertae)

Licentiae

Burial of a freedwoman

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1894, p. 384, no. 14.

According to the Epigraphic Database Roma this reads

Tutiae ((mulieris)) l(ibertae)
Licentiae.