FP5 Pompeii. East tomb 5 at Fondo Pacifico. Tomb of Publius Mancius Diogenes.

Excavated 1886-7. This part of the site is now buried.

FP5 Pompeii. Detail from late 19th century photo.

According to Mau, the structure is shallow, the vaulted opening low.

On the top of the arch were three niches, in which stood three travertine statues.

Two of these statues, both of women, have been preserved, and are of indifferent workmanship.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 432).

FP5 Pompeii. According to Mau the marble plaque on the front of the tomb had the Latin inscription as shown above.

P MANCIO P L(iberto) DIOGENI  EX TESTAMENTO ARBITRATU  MANCIAE P L(ibertae) DORINIS

To the memory of Publius Mancius Diogenes, freedman of Publius Mancius; (the monument was erected) in accordance with the terms of his will, under the direction of Mancia Doris, freedwoman of Publius Mancius.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 432-3).

See Mau, A., 1888. Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume III. (p. 133).

According to Sogliano, this was a marble slab, height 0.35m, length. 0.70m, set into the front of the third monument, counting from the west: the letters were painted in red, as can be seen from the traces.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1887, p. 33.

Pompeii FP1. 1886 drawing of tomb front and cross section showing upper storey.

See Maier H., 1886. Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, No 46, p. 451, fig. 3.

FP5 Pompeii and FP6. Late 19th century photo.

See Mau, A., 1908. Pompeji in Leben und Kunst, Lipsia, 1908, p. 453, fig. 267.

FP5 Pompeii. C.1890. Tomb, front right, shortly after excavation. Photo by Paul Bette.

Collection de l'Institut d'Archéologie classique de Strasbourg (fonds Michaelis) inventory number It.IV.A.c.46.

FP5 Pompeii. 1888 plan of tombs FP1 to FP6 by Mau.

According to Mau, tomb FP5 had four bust stones at the front and two at the rear as shown on this plan.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 431, fig. 246).

Pompeii FP3 left, FP4, FP5 and FP6. Late 19th century painting showing inscriptions.

See Niccolini F, 1896. Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei: Volume Quarto. Napoli.  (Nuovo Scavi, Tav.1).

FP3 Pompeii left, FP4, FP5 and FP6 before reburial. Old undated photo. Two tombs were found in 1886 and a further four in the following year.

FP3 Pompeii left, FP4, FP5 and FP6 before reburial. Old undated photo. Tombs found in 1887.

Pompeii FP3 left, FP4, FP5 and FP6. 1899 drawing of tombs.

See Gusman P., 1899. Pompei: La Ville, Les Mœurs, Les Arts. Paris: Société française d'éditions d'art, p. 41.

FP5 Pompeii. Inscriptions found on the front of the tomb.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these read as

L(ucium) Magium

Celerem h(ominem) v(irum) b(onum)       [CIL IV 3871]

C(aium) Tampium Sabeinum

tr(ibunum) ple(bis) v(irum) b(onum) o(ro)

v(ehementer?) v(os) facia(tis)       [CIL IV 3872]

CIL IV 3871 is to the right of the plaque. CIL IV 3872 is above the arch and occupies the entire front.

See Varone, A. and Stefani, G., 2009. Titulorum Pictorum Pompeianorum, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 482)

See Mau, A., 1888. Mitteilungen des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abtheilung Volume III. (p. 142).

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1887, p.38.