HGE05 Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate East Side. Tomb of N. Curtius N. F. Spurianus?
Excavated 1806, 1886, 1933-5 and 1977. (Eschebach West 5, Kockel Süd 5).
On the 1st May 1886 a marble plaque was found with the inscription
N. CVRTIVS N. F.
SPVRIANVS FRATER
N(umerius)
Curtius N(umeri) f(ilius) Spurianus frater.
See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1886, p. 169.
According to Kockel the find circumstances are not exact enough and the naming cannot be conclusively proven.
See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern. (p. 126).
HGE05 Pompeii. May 2006. Front of tomb.
HGE05 Pompeii. April 2019. Fallen columns on area in front of tomb.
Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
HGE05 Pompeii. April 2019. Area in
front of tomb. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
HGE05 Pompeii. May 2006. Front of tomb with two altars leaning against the wall.
According to Kockel these are probably from the corners of HGE04 or may possibly be from HGE06.
See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern. (p. 121-2).