SGD and SGH Pompeii. Tombs at Stabian Gate or Porta Stabia.

SGD Schola Tomb of Marcus Tullius. SGH Enclosure at rear.

Excavated 1888 to 1890.

 

Just outside the Porta di Stabia a pair of tufa schola tombs came to light in 1888-90.

The one, closest to the gate, is identified by a pair of lava cippi, one to either side, as the tomb of M. Tullius, given by decree of the decuriones.

M. Tullius appears to have been the man who built the Aedes For­tunae Augustae, three times duovir and tribunus militum a populo.

Both tombs were no longer respected after A.D. 62 but were buried under dumps of debris from the earthquake.

According to L. Richardson Jr., the schola of Tullius has remains of a rectangular base behind the mid­point that probably carried another inscription, and it is the later of the two, built when the pomerial strip was no longer needed.

See Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1889, 280; 1890, 329-331; 1891, 273-274.

See Richardson, L., 1988. Pompeii, An Architectural History. Baltimore: John Hopkins U. P. (p.254-5).

 

SGH Pompeii. March 2009. Tomb of M Tullius. Enclosure behind schola.

 

SGH Pompeii. March 2009. Front of enclosure on north side of schola with small boundary stone behind larger Cippus.

 

SGH Pompeii. March 2009. North end boundary stone on front wall of enclosure.

 

SGH Pompeii. May 2006. Boundary stone.

According to Mau: The memorial tablet belonging to the monument nearest the gate has disappeared, but two boundary stones at the corners of the lot bear the Latin inscription :

M. Tullio M. f. ex D(ecurionem) D(ecreto)

'To Marcus Tullius son of Marcus, in accordance with a vote of the city council.'

The Tullius named was perhaps the builder of the temple of Fortuna Augusta.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p.422-3, p.126).

The Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) has the entry as

 

M(arco) Tullio

M(arci) f(ilio)

ex d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)       [EE-08-01, 00330 = EE-08-01, 00857d]

 

SGH Pompeii. May 2006. Boundary stone.

 

SGH Pompeii. December 2007. Looking east to wall of enclosure and north end of schola.

 

SGD Pompeii. September 2010. Schola tomb of Marcus Tullius.

Looking north-east towards wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

SGD Pompeii. September 2010. Schola tomb of Marcus Tullius.

Looking east along wall. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

SGD Pompeii. March 2009. Schola looking south.

 

SGD Pompeii. September 2010. Carving of a paw at north end terminus of schola.

Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

 

SGD Pompeii. March 2009. Schola north end and wall of enclosure SGH.

 

SGD Pompeii. May 2006. Schola north end with carving of paw.

 

SGD Pompeii. March 2009. Schola centre.

 

SGD Pompeii. March 2009. Schola south end with remains of carving of paw.

 

SGD Pompeii. May 2006. North end.

 

SGD Pompeii. May 2006. North end.