HGE15A Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate East Side. Samnite graves. (Kockel Nord 15A).

Eschebach only shows Villa delle Colonne a Mosaico or Villa of the Mosaic Columns.

HGE15A Pompeii. Plan of Samnite tombs in the Villa delle Colonne a Mosaico.

See Pompei Oltre la Vita; Nuove testimonianze dalle necropoli, Mostra, SAP, 1998, p. 26-9.

HGE15A Pompeii. Looking east towards graves from entrance HGE15.

Photographed 1970-79 by Günther Einhorn, picture courtesy of his son Ralf Einhorn.

HGE15A Pompeii. December 2006. Looking west across graves towards entrance HGE15.

HGE15A Pompeii. December 2006. Two Samnite graves.

HGE15A Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east towards lararium behind the graves.

HGE15A Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south across graves to stairs and lararium niche with altars.

HGE15A Pompeii. December 2006. Looking north across garden towards two graves in metal frames.

HGE15A Pompeii. December 2006. Location of Samnite graves.

The location of three graves is clustered around the base of the wall near the short projecting low wall.

HGE15A Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-west across two graves and the site of three other graves in the gap in the wall.

HGE15A Pompeii. 2009 re-excavation of three Samnite graves by the Via Consolare Project.

The location of three graves is clustered around the base of the wall.

The two graves in the metal frames are also visible on the other side of the gap in the wall.

Excavations in 2009 were carried out by the Via Consolare Project and their report commented that:

Extensive modern deposits were removed from the area, revealing three heavily reconstructed, irregularly-aligned inhumation cist-graves.

It is likely that these constructions are the result of the excavations of A. Maiuri in the 1930-40’s and were a component of his preparations of the Villa for general display that included replanting the viridarium and running water to the nymphaeum.

Photo courtesy of the Via Consolare Project. See http://www.viaconsolareproject.org/research2009.html