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POMPEIANA. 147
1825. There seems to have been nothing
to afford room for a conjecture as to how it
came there. It might, perhaps, have been
thrown into an excavation which the ancients
themselves seem to have made in this spot,
or have fallen from an upper wall.
L. CAECILIVS . FELIX
Q. LOLLIVS . FELIX
Q. ARRIVS . HIERONI
sic pro minist. MINIT . AVGVST
EX DD JVSSV
M. POMPONI. MARCELL
VALERI FLACCI
D.V.J.D
A. PERENNI MERVLINI
L. OBELLI LVCRETIANI
D.V.V . A . S . P.P.
C. CAESARE L. PAVLLO
COSS
Perhaps, as the inscription does not seem
to allude clearly to the owner of the house,
its chief merit may consist in having been
engraved in the first year after the birth of
our Saviour, about 753 years after the build-
ing of Rome, when Caius Julius Caesar and
Lucius iEmilius Paullus were consuls.
On the left, on quitting the vestibule,
yet remain the legs and part of the body
z2
1825. There seems to have been nothing
to afford room for a conjecture as to how it
came there. It might, perhaps, have been
thrown into an excavation which the ancients
themselves seem to have made in this spot,
or have fallen from an upper wall.
L. CAECILIVS . FELIX
Q. LOLLIVS . FELIX
Q. ARRIVS . HIERONI
sic pro minist. MINIT . AVGVST
EX DD JVSSV
M. POMPONI. MARCELL
VALERI FLACCI
D.V.J.D
A. PERENNI MERVLINI
L. OBELLI LVCRETIANI
D.V.V . A . S . P.P.
C. CAESARE L. PAVLLO
COSS
Perhaps, as the inscription does not seem
to allude clearly to the owner of the house,
its chief merit may consist in having been
engraved in the first year after the birth of
our Saviour, about 753 years after the build-
ing of Rome, when Caius Julius Caesar and
Lucius iEmilius Paullus were consuls.
On the left, on quitting the vestibule,
yet remain the legs and part of the body
z2