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Pompeii. Porta di Stabia or Stabian Gate.
Part 2.
Part 1
Cippus of L. Avianius
Flaccus and Q. Spedius Firmus.
Near here on
the 11th October 1889, “at approximately 10 metres if you are exiting and turn
to the right’ were two bodies, a man and a woman lying side by side.
Salvatore Cozzi made
two plaster casts.
See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p. 193-4, Figg. 451-3).
VII.7.29
Garcia y Garcia
described a mature man, already old, but perhaps still vigorous, fallen on his
back, wrapped in a wide cape, with hands on his chest and with slightly drawn up
legs.
He had a fine aquiline
nose and a smile was on his lips. On the right leg was a circular ring that
denoted a slave.
This plaster cast was
obtained outside the Stabian Gate on the 11th October 1889, at approximately 10
metres if you are exiting and turn to the right.
A plaster cast was
also made of a woman who was found next to this man.
See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p. 193-4, Figg. 451-3).
According to Dwyer,
this plaster cast was of victim number 14.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of
Michigan Press: (p.103)
VII.9.7 and VII.9.8 Pompeii. July 2011. Plaster
cast on display in Macellum.
Known as victim no.14, this victim was also recovered near
the Stabian Gate on 11th October 1889.
See Garcia y Garcia, L., 2006. Danni di guerra a Pompei. Rome: L’Erma di
Bretschneider. (p. 193-4, Figg. 451-3).
According to Dwyer, described as victim no. 15,
this plaster cast was a woman of mature age.
She had been found laying face down on her stomach
and half-clothed, her arms stretched before her.
See Dwyer, E., 2010. Pompeii’s Living Statues. Univ. of
Michigan Press: (p.106-7)
![Reproduction of the inscription by Fiorelli. [Descrizione 1875 p. 29]. Only four of the eleven lines were visible in March 2009, with seven buried. See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. P. 31](Gate%20Stabian%20p2_files/image009.jpg)
Reproduction of the
inscription by Fiorelli. [Descrizione 1875 p. 29]. Only four of the eleven lines
were visible in March 2009, with seven buried.
See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa
Editore. P. 31
![Oscan and its Latin translation. From C Darling Buck’s Grammar of Oscan… 1904.
Buck translates and explains this as:
The aediles [M. Sittius and N. Pontius] laid out two roads, and these as well as two others they also constructed or repaired under the direction of the meddix [oscan magistrate] of the city. One road, leading out from the Stabian gate where the inscription was set up, they laid out at a certain width as far as the Stabian bridge. The street leading from the same point into the city, and called, from its importance, the Via Pompeiana (now known as the Strada [Via] Stabiana), they laid out at a certain width as far as the temple of Jupiter Milichius. The Via Iovia was doubtless named from a temple of Jupiter, and the Via Decurialis from some public building.
See Buck C. D., 1904. A Grammar Of Oscan And Umbrian. Boston: Ginn. p. 239-240.
Mau states “….. these streets ..….. they placed in perfect repair.” He also states the present temple is no old enough to be the one mentioned in the inscription, but suggests it is probably standing on a much earlier edifice. See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. p. 184.](Gate%20Stabian%20p2_files/image011.jpg)
Oscan and
its Latin translation. From C Darling Buck’s Grammar of Oscan… 1904.
Buck
translated and explained this as:
The
aediles [M. Sittius and N. Pontius]
laid out two roads, and these as well as two others they also constructed or
repaired under the direction of the meddix [oscan
magistrate] of the city.
One road,
leading out from the Stabian gate where the inscription was set up, they laid
out at a certain width as far as the Stabian bridge.
The
street leading from the same point into the city, and called, from its
importance, the Via Pompeiana (now known as the Strada [Via] Stabiana), they laid out at a certain width as far as the
temple of Jupiter Milichius.
The Via
Iovia was doubtless named from a temple of Jupiter, and the Via Decurialis from
some public building.
See Buck C. D., 1904.
A Grammar Of Oscan And Umbrian.
Boston: Ginn. p. 239-240.
Mau
stated “….. these streets ..….. they placed in perfect repair.”
He
also stated the present temple was not old enough to be the one mentioned in the
inscription, but suggested it was probably standing on a much earlier edifice.
See Mau, A., 1907,
translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its
Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. p. 184.
The inscription now
has only two of its eleven lines above ground.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
Pompeii Stabian Gate.
September 2010. Two niches on east side.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
Pompeii Stabian Gate.
September 2010. Looking north onto Via Stabiana.
Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
Porta di Stabia. About 1900. Looking north along
Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta di Stabia. About 1869. Looking north along
Via Stabiana. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Porta di Stabia. About 1900. Looking north along
Via Stabiana, past VIII.7 and the Theatres on left. Photo courtesy of Rick
Bauer.