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VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. Semi circular stone schola bench seat with sundial.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii. December 2005. Triangular Forum most westerly point near schola VIII.2.39.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii. December 2005. Triangular Forum most westerly point near schola VIII.2.39.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. May 2010.

Semi circular stone bench or schola with lions’ feet next to the west corner of the temple.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Semi circular stone bench or schola with lions’ feet next to the west corner of the temple.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005.

Semi circular stone bench or schola with lions’ feet next to the west corner of the temple.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Semi circular stone schola bench with sundial. According to Mau this seat was set up to enjoy the uninterrupted views over the plain, to the mountains and across the bay. On the back of the schola seat was a sundial with an inscription. Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 3832.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Semi circular stone schola bench with sundial.

According to Mau this seat was set up to enjoy the uninterrupted views over the plain, to the mountains and across the bay.

On the back of the schola seat was a sundial with an inscription.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 3832.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. 11^th May 1765. Semi circular stone schola bench with sundial.

PAH I, 1, p. 169, 11^th May 1765, records this inscription found in the back of the seat:

Fiorelli in Descrizione records a sundial with a tablet behind containing an inscription

L SEPVNIVS L F SANDILIANVS

M HERENNIVS A F EPIDIANVS

DVO VIR I D SCOL ET HOROL

D S P F C

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 136, [365])

The Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) records

L(ucius) Sepunius L(uci) f(ilius) Sandilianus

M(arcus) Herennius A(uli) f(ilius) Epidianus

duovir(i) i(ure) d(icundo) scol(a) et horol(ogium)

d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(aciendum) c(uraverunt) [CIL X 831]

Mau translates this as

'Lucius Sepunius Sandilianus the son of Lucius, and Marcus Herennius Epidianus the son of Aulus, duumvirs with judiciary authority, caused the seat and sundial to be made at their own expense.'

The same two duumvirs were also responsible for the sundial in the court of the Temple of Apollo.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 135-6).

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. West end of semi circular stone bench with remaining lion’s foot.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. West end of semi circular stone bench with remaining lion’s foot.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. East end of semi circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. East end of semi circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Back of semi circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Back of semi circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Front west end of semi circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Front west end of semi circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Front east end of semi circular stone bench. The lion’s foot is missing.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005.

Front east end of semi circular stone bench. The lion’s foot is missing.