Pompeii Porta Nocera Tombs. North east side of Via delle Tombe.

Tombs 2EN to 44EN.

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Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 4EN, tomb of L Cellius,  south side. May 2006.

                                       

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 4EN, south side. May 2006.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tomb 4EN, marble plaque with latin inscription:

L(ucio)   CELLIO   L(uci)   F(ilio)

MEN(enia)   II VIR  (duo vir(o))   I(ure)   D(icundo)  TR(ibuno)

MIL(itum)   A   POPVLO

EX  TESTAM(ento).

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983.

Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera.

Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (4EN).

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tombs EN6 and 4, rear north sides. May 2010.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 6EN, tomb of an anonymous female. May 2006.

A tufa head of a woman (SAP 10931) and a statue of a woman (SAP 13932) were found.

Both were in the style of Pudicitia, the Roman personification of modesty and chastity.

There was no epigraphic information to identify who the tomb belonged to.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 6EN. Found June 1954.

Found against the west side of front arch of the tomb between tombs 4EN and 6EN.

Marble funerary statue of a woman draped in tunic and cape.

The statue is in the style of Pudicitia, the Roman personification of modesty and chastity.

The back of the statue has not been worked. SAP inventory number 13932.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum.  September 2009.

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983. Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera. Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (4EN).

See Brion, M., 1960. Pompeii and Herculaneum: The Glory and the Grief. London: Elek. (p.42, T: 7).

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 6EN. Found June 1954.

Found against the west side of front arch of the tomb between tombs 4EN and 6EN.

Marble female funerary statue. SAP 13932.

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983. Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera. Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (4EN).

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera.

Tomb 6EN, electoral inscriptions were found on the east wall of the niche arch. May 2006.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 6EN, large niche at front. May 2006. Looking north.

Electoral inscriptions were found on the east wall of the niche arch.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tombs EN10, 8 and 6, rear north sides.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tombs EN 10, 8, 6 and 4, rear north sides.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Via delle Tombe, looking north to EN6, 8 and 10. May 2010.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010.

Tomb EN8, between EN6 and 10, looking west along rear north sides.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 8EN, tomb of the Gens Aninia. Looking north. May 2006.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb EN8 between EN10 and 6. Looking south. May 2010.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Tomb 8EN, columella with inscription:

ANINIA

DIDIME.

According to the Giornale di Scavo dated 5^th July 1954 a second columella in travertine was found.

This columella (now lost) had the Latin inscription

ANINIA

[C]NAEI  L(iberti)  L(iberta)  TERTI(A?).

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983. Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera. Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (8EN).

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010.

Tomb EN8, columella with inscription of  ANINIA DIDIME

 

 

 

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