HGW04e/f Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate West Side. Grave enclosure of the Buccii and the Melissaei.

(Eschebach does not list separately from West 4, Kockel Süd 4E/F).

Excavated 1770.

HGW04e/f Pompeii. Plan by F. La Vega of area outside Porta Ercolano.

See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, Tab. III.

The exact location of these graves seems uncertain.

According to Kockel

Mommsen in CIL X placed them next to HGW04a.

Mau states they were found in a plot connected with that of the Istacidii at the rear.

La Vega does not mention them at all in his comprehensive notes in PAH and they are not on his plan of the graves in Tab III.

Kockel suggests they did not lie next to HGW04a as their funeral forms differed from each other.

They may possibly have been on the Via Pomeriale where it is also possible that they could already see wall remains.

No positive location is given.

See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern. (p. 70).

HGW04e/f Pompeii. 1770 addenda description of finding of the tomb of the Buccii.

See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 2 Addenda, 155, 7th April 1770.

HGW04e/f Pompeii. 1770 addenda description of finding of the tomb of the Melisseai, with a sundial in the same tomb.

See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 2 Addenda, 155, 7th April 1770.

HGW04e/f Pompeii. 1770 PAH description of inscriptions on Buccia cippi.

A BVCCIVS

VICTOR V A XIIX

BVCIA APTA

APTA BVCCIA

VIXIT ANN…

See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 237, 7th April 1770.

See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern. (Taf. 14b).

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

A(ulus) Buccius

Victor v(ixit) a(nnos) XIIX        [CIL X 1000]

Bucia Apta        [CIL X 1001].

Apta Buccia

vixit ann(os) [       [CIL X 1002]

HGW04e/f Pompeii. Marble stele of Aulus Buccius Victor with the inscription

A BVCCIVS

VICTOR V A XIIX      [CIL X, 1000]

HGW04e/f Pompeii.  1770 description of inscriptions on cippi.

Four cippi with inscriptions were found, embedded in the ground.

There were cremation ashes buried under each and these were covered with tiles.

The inscriptions read

MELISSAEA

AMYCES

IVNONI

MELISSAEA

CN  L  ASIA

MELISSEA  SP  F

ASIATICE  VIX

ANNIS  XVIII

(Under this inscription were some lines, which seem to represent hours, tropics and equinoxes, which suggests this may have been a clock).

FORTVNATVS

VIXIT ANNIS II

See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 237-8, 21st April 1770.

See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern. (Taf. 14c, 14d, 14e).

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

Melissaeae

Amyces

Iunoni        [CIL X 1009]

Melissaea

Cn(aei) l(iberta) Asia        [CIL X 1010]

Melissea Sp(uri) f(ilia)

Asiatice vix(it)

annis XVIII        [CIL X 1011]

Fortunatus

vixit annis II        [CIL X 1012]

HGW04e/f Pompeii. Found in 1770. Limestone herm with the inscription.

MELISSAEAE

AMYCES

IVNONI

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

Melissaeae

Amyces

Iunoni        [CIL X 1009]

HGW04e/f Pompeii. Found in 1770. Limestone herm with the inscription.

MELISSAEA

CN L ASIA

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

Melissaea

Cn(aei) l(iberta) Asia        [CIL X 1010]

HGW04e/f Pompeii. Found in 1770. Limestone herm with the inscription.

MELISSEA SP F

ASIATICE VIX

ANNIS XVIII

(Under this inscription were some lines, which seem to represent hours, tropics and equinoxes, which suggests this may have been a clock).

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

Melissea Sp(uri) f(ilia)

Asiatice vix(it)

annis XVIII        [CIL X 1011]

See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern, p. 69.

HGW04e/f Pompeii. Found in 1770. Limestone herm with the inscription.

FORTVNATVS

VIXIT ANNIS II

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

Fortunatus

vixit annis II        [CIL X 1012]