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CHAPTER L

. THE STREET OF TOMBS

_Of Roman tombs and rites of burial_: MARQUARDT, Roem. Privatleben (Edit. 2), pp. 340-385; FRIEDLAENDER, Sittengeschichte Roms, Edit. 5, vol. 3, pp. 112-123, Edit. 7, vol. 2, pp. 220-228; GUHL and KONER, Life of the Greeks and Romans, Secs. 77, 78, 110; LANCIANI, Pagan and Christian Rome (1892), pp. 168-208, 253-305; VOLLMER, De funere publico Romanorum, Jahrbuecher fuer classische Philologie, Supplementband 19 (1893), pp. 319-364; see the article Bestattung, by MAU, in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopaedie, vol. 3, pp. 346-359.

_Of the street of tombs as a whole_: MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 1; FIORELLI, Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 401-419; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 381-397; OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, pp. 398-422.

_Tombs near the Herculaneum gate, not including the Garland tomb_ (excavated 1763-1764, 1769-1770): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 150-155, 234-241, pt. 2, pp. 110-118 (journal of Francesco la Vega); PIRANESI, Antiquites de Pompei, vols. 1, 2, pl. 2-5, 34-44. _Sepulchral enclosure of Terentius Felix_ (excavation finished December 15, 1828): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 2, p. 217; BONUCCI, Pompei decrite (seconde traduction de la 3e edition italienne, Naples, 1830), p. 73. _The tomb nearest the gate on the right_: MAU, Roem. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), pp. 140-142.

_Tombs farther from the gate, to the limit of excavation_ (excavated 1806-1813): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 87, 176-177, (Garland tomb), pt. 3, pp. 74-120, 223-225, 249; MILLIN, Description des tombeaux qui ont ete decouverts a Pompei dans l'annee 1812 (Naples, 1813); CLARAC, Fouille faite a Pompei en presence de S. M. la Reine des Deux Siciles le 18 Mars, 1813 (Naples, 1813). _Tomb of the blue glass vase_ (1837): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 3, p. 132; SCHULZ, in his Scavi di Pompei, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 10 (1838), pp. 194-195. _Tomb of Diomedes_ (excavated in 1775): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 279-280. _Tomb of Istacidius Helenus_ (1775, 1828): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist, vol. 1, pt. 1. pp. 279-280, vol. 2, p. 217. _The pre-Roman graves_ [p. 407]: MAU and VON DUHN, Bull. dell' Inst., 1874, pp. 156-167; earlier finds of painted vases, BONUCCI, Pompei (1830), p. 65; and DE IORIO, Plan de Pompei et remarques sur ses edifices (Naples, 1828), p. 33.

_T. Suedius Clemens_ [pp. 407-408; cf. also p. 488]: Clemens was now evidently a supporter of Vespasian; previously he had been in the service of Otho (Tac. Hist. I. LXXXVII, II. XII).

_Blue glass vase_ [p. 415]: SCHULTZ, Anforina di vetro con bassirilievi rinvenuta in Pompei, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 11 (1839), pp. 84-100.

_Gladiatorial scenes on the tomb of Scaurus_ [p. 419]: admirably engraved by MAZOIS (op. cit., pl. 30, 31, 32), and frequently reproduced, as by SCHREIBER, Atlas of Classical Antiquities (Eng. trans., 1895), pl. 30, 2-9, text, with citation of literature, p. 59; NICCOLINI, le case ed i monumenti di Pompei, vol. 1. _Inscriptions accompanying the figures_: C. I. L. IV. 1182; the inscription of the tomb itself is given, C. I. L. X. 1024. In his interpretation of the reliefs Mazois incorrectly assumed (op. cit., pp. 47-48) that on account of the baiting of a bear by one of the figures with a cloth the tomb could not have been built before the time of Claudius. The passage cited by him (Plin. N. H. VIII. XVI. 54) has no bearing on the date; but the tomb of Scaurus, which belongs neither to the oldest nor to the most recent, may well have been built in the time of Claudius or of Nero.

_Ship on the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche_ [p. 423]: JORDAN, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 44 (1872), pp. 20-26; VISCONTI, Fronte di Sarcofago con Tritoni e navi, Bull. Com., vol. 1 (1872-1873), pp. 255-269; cf. Cic. De Sen. XIX. 71. Petronius (Sat. LXXI.) humorously represents Trimalchio as ordering 'ships under full sail' among the carvings of his tomb.

_Inscription of Salvius_ [p. 426]: found, according to C. I. L. X. 1032, beside the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche; but we have the testimony of BONUCCI (Pompei, 1830, p. 37) to the effect that it was found in the niche where it now is, where it exactly fits the cavity. The mistake in the Corpus may have arisen from a misunderstanding of the report of the excavation, which is now unfortunately lost.

_M. Alleius Luccius Libella_ [p. 426]: the name was originally Luccius Libella, with what praenomen is not clear; but Luccius Libella married the daughter of M. Alleius (M. Alleius Nigidius Maius?) and was adopted by him, assuming his praenomen and nomen, so that the full name took the form given in the inscription. The son dropped the original nomen Luccius, and was called simply M. Alleius Libella. In like manner the name of the son of D. Lucretius Satrius Valens became D. Lucretius Valens [p. 222].