Pompeii Porta Nocera Tombs. South West side of Via delle Tombe.

Tombs 1OS to 31OS.

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Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Looking east along Via delle Tombe.

Tomb of Publius Vesonius Phileros, Vesonia and Marcus Orfellius Faustus, on the right.

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

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Looking south. May 2006.

Aedicula tomb of Publius Vesonius Phileros, Vesonia and Marcus Orfellius Faustus.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS.

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

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Three headless statues. May 2006.

Publius Vesonius Phileros I, to the left wearing a toga.

Vesonia, daughter of a Publius Vesonius, is in the centre wearing in tunic and mantle.

Marcus Orfellius Faustus, to the right wearing a toga.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. May 2010.

Marble plaque with latin inscriptions.

P(ublius)  VESONIVS  G(aiae)  L(ibertus)

PHILEROS  AVGVSTALIS

VIVOS  MONVMENT(um)

FECIT  SIBI  ET  SVIS

 

VESONIAE  P(ubli)  F(iliae)

PATRONAE  ET

 

M(arco)  ORFELLIO  M(arci)  L(iberto)

FAVSTO  AMICO.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Marble plaques with latin inscriptions. May 2006.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS.  May 2010.

Plaque, in latin, on front of tomb with a warning to passers by.

 

HOSPES  PAVILLISPER  MORARE

SI  NON  EST  MOLESTVM  ET  QVID  EVITES

COGNOSCE  AMICVM  HVNC  QVEM

SPERAVERAM  MI  ESSE  AB  EO  MIHI  ACCVSATO

RES  SVBIECTI  ET  IVDICIA  INSTAVRATA  DEIS

GRATIAS  AGO  ET  MEAE  INNOCENTIAE  OMNI

MOLESTIA  LIBERATVS  SVM  QVI  NOSTRVM  MENTITVR

EVM  NEC  DI  PENATES  NEC  INFERI  RECIPIANT.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS from the rear. Looking north-west. May 2010.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. South rear side of tomb. May 2006.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Columelle at rear of tomb. May 2006.

Sixteen columelle were found of which five, in marble or limestone, had inscriptions.

P  VESONIVS /  PILEROS.

VESONIA  /  P(ubli)  F(ilia).

P(ublio)  VESONIO /  PROCVLO /  V(ixit)  A(nnis)  XIII.

VESONIA  VRBANA /  VIXIT  ANNIS  XX.

ELIODO /  RVS  VIX(it) /  ANN(is) /  XVIII.

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. (23OS).

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Centre niche on south side, with two lava columelle. May 2010.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Lava columella. May 2010.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera Tomb 23OS. Lava columella. May 2010.

 

 

 

 

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