Pompeii. Porta del Vesuvio or Vesuvian Gate.

Excavated 1811 and 1905.

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Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate showing walls and drain leading to water tower, on north side of gate. May 2006.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Drain leading to water tower on north side of gate.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. December 2005. Gate (and walls) looking east.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. December 2005. Walls and Tower X, looking west.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall to left of Tower X showing impact by war machines used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall to left of Tower X showing impact by war machines used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall to left of Tower X showing impact by war machines used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall to left of Tower X showing impact by war machines used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall to left of Tower X showing impact by war machines used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall to left of Tower X showing impact by war machines used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall to left of Tower X showing impact by war machines used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. Wall at Vesuvian gate showing impact of siege balls used by Sulla.

 

Pompeii. December 2005. City walls on west side of Vesuvian Gate. Looking south-east.

 

Pompeii. Vesuvian Gate. May 2006. VG5 Cippus of Titus Suedius Clemens.The Cippus is inscribed:

 

Ex auctoritate

imp(eratoris) Caesaris

Vespasiani Aug(usti)

loca publica

a privatis possessa T(itus) Suedius

Clemens tribunus causis cognitis

et mensuris factis rei publicae

Pompeianorum restituit.

 

By virtue of authority conferred upon him by the Emperor Vespasian Caesar Augustus,

Titus Suedius Clemens, tribune, having investigated the facts and taken measurements,

restored to the citizens of Pompeii public places illegally appropriated by private persons.

 

Similar Cippi were found at the Porta Ercolano, Porta Marina and the Porta Nocera.

The wording “rei publicae Pompeianorum” on one of these, discovered in 1763, was the first positive identification that the site was Pompeii.

Until then scholars had divided opinions on the city buried under Civita. Many, including the first official excavators, thought it was the ancient city of Stabiae.

See Conticello, B., Ed, 1990. Rediscovering Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 225).

 

 

 

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