Pompeii Porta Nocera Tombs. Cippus of Suedius Clemens at Porta Nocera.

 

Porta Nocera Tombs Plan

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Cippus of Titus Suedius Clemens.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Cippus of Titus Suedius Clemens.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Cippus of Titus Suedius Clemens.

The Cippus has the Latin inscription:

 

Ex auctoritate

imp(eratoris) Caesaris

Vespasiani Aug(usti)

loca publica, a privatis

possessa T(itus) Suedius

Clemens tribunus causis

cognitis et mensuris factis

rei publicae Pompeianorum

restituit, 

 

By virtue of authority conferred upon him by the Emperor Vespasian Caesar Augustus,

Titus Suedius Clemens, tribune, having investigated the facts and taken measurements,

restored to the citizens of Pompeii public places illegally appropriated by private persons.

 

Similar Cippi were found at the Porta Ercolano, Porta Marina and the Porta Vesuvio.

The wording “rei publicae Pompeianorum” on one of these, discovered in 1763, was the first positive identification that the site was Pompeii.

Until then scholars had divided opinions on the city buried under Civita. 

Many, including the first official excavators, thought it was the ancient city of Stabiae.

See Conticello, B., Ed, 1990. Rediscovering Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 225).

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Looking north from Via delle Tombe.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. December 2004. Tomb on south side of Via delle Tombe.

Looking north to Porta Nocera.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Statues stored by tombs on south side of Via delle Tombe.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. December 2004. Statues stored by tombs on south side of Via delle Tombe.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. December 2004. Looking west from cippus.

Tombs on South West and North West sides of Via delle Tombe.

 

Pompeii Porta Nocera. December 2004. Looking west from cippus.

Tombs on south west side of Via delle Tombe.

 

 

Porta Nocera Tombs Plan