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106 POMPEIANA.
The access to this tomb is through a low
door1, opening into a septum 19 feet square, in
one angle of which the monument, 12 feet
9 inches by 10 feet, is placed. It is entered by
the side: the undecorated interior, about 7 feet
square, is vaulted, and surrounded with small
niches, four on each side, except that of entrance,
where the space of two is occupied by the door-
way. In the centre is a square pillar, which
reaches to and supports the ceiling, leaving a
space round of not more than two feet: it is
pierced each way with a niche, perhaps for a
lamp. An opening for light was opposite the
door *.
8 A space of more than eighty feet in front next
occurs. Upon it is placed a single tomb, and
small stele, of which the details are not remark-
able: the former is unfinished. In the rear of
this,
9 Is a triangular enclosed space, to which there
does not appear to have been any entrance.
10 Garden, with a covered portico, belonging to a
produce so much upon the arena; but as the stone is here broken, there
might have been another thousand.
» Five feet 3 inches high, hardly 4 feet wide; the door of the
tomb is 4 feet high, 2 feet 2§ inches wide; the enclosing wall is 7 feet
high.
3 Sylla was father-in-law to a Scaurus, who was a great corrupter
of Roman manners. He built a theatre for 30,000 persons, with SOOO
brass statues ; and 360 columns, of which 120 were glass, 38 feet high.—
Pliny. 36—24.
The access to this tomb is through a low
door1, opening into a septum 19 feet square, in
one angle of which the monument, 12 feet
9 inches by 10 feet, is placed. It is entered by
the side: the undecorated interior, about 7 feet
square, is vaulted, and surrounded with small
niches, four on each side, except that of entrance,
where the space of two is occupied by the door-
way. In the centre is a square pillar, which
reaches to and supports the ceiling, leaving a
space round of not more than two feet: it is
pierced each way with a niche, perhaps for a
lamp. An opening for light was opposite the
door *.
8 A space of more than eighty feet in front next
occurs. Upon it is placed a single tomb, and
small stele, of which the details are not remark-
able: the former is unfinished. In the rear of
this,
9 Is a triangular enclosed space, to which there
does not appear to have been any entrance.
10 Garden, with a covered portico, belonging to a
produce so much upon the arena; but as the stone is here broken, there
might have been another thousand.
» Five feet 3 inches high, hardly 4 feet wide; the door of the
tomb is 4 feet high, 2 feet 2§ inches wide; the enclosing wall is 7 feet
high.
3 Sylla was father-in-law to a Scaurus, who was a great corrupter
of Roman manners. He built a theatre for 30,000 persons, with SOOO
brass statues ; and 360 columns, of which 120 were glass, 38 feet high.—
Pliny. 36—24.