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POMPEII
beside his name, for missus, is followed by the death sign ®, the
first letter of the Greek word for death, ® AN ATOS.
The animals shown in the venatio are mainly wild boars and
bears, but we recognize also a lion and a bull. Lions were doubt-
less much more rarely seen in such exhibitions at Pompeii than
at Rome.
As more attention came to be given to the outward appear-
ance of tombs, less was bestowed upon the adornment of the
sepulchral chamber. So in the tomb of Scaurus the burial vault
is low, cramped, and with plain white walls. A massive pillar,
as in the tomb of the Istacidii, supports the vaulted ceiling. It
is pierced by two openings, forming four niches, two on each
side. Three of these, when the tomb was opened, were closed
by panes of glass, and there were traces of a curtain that hung
over the one opposite the entrance. There were fourteen other
niches in the walls at the sides.
No name is associated with the third tomb (18 on the plan)
which, as shown by Plate IX, is simply a large cylinder of
masonry, the top of which probably had the shape of a trun-
cated cone ; the material is brick, with a facing of white stucco
lined off to give the appearance of blocks of marble. The base
is square; the enclosing wall is adorned yvith miniature towers.
The structure illustrates in its simplest form the type of the
massive tomb, or mausoleum, found at Rome ; we are at once
reminded of the imposing monument of Caecilia Metella on the
Appian Way, and of Hadrian’s Mausoleum in the city.
A blank tablet was placed by the builder on the front of the
enclosing wall to receive an inscription after his death. The
heirs, however, preferred to put the memorial on the tomb itself,
where the place of an inscription is plainly seen, the slab itself
having disappeared. The sepulchral chamber is in the super-
structure ; it was decorated with simple designs in the fourth
style on a white ground. There were only three niches, per-
haps for father, mother, and child ; the urns were let into the
bottoms of the niches, as often in the Roman columbaria.
One of the miniature towers on the enclosing wall is orna-
mented with a relief presenting a singular design; a woman in
mourning habit is laying a fillet on a skeleton reclining on a
POMPEII
beside his name, for missus, is followed by the death sign ®, the
first letter of the Greek word for death, ® AN ATOS.
The animals shown in the venatio are mainly wild boars and
bears, but we recognize also a lion and a bull. Lions were doubt-
less much more rarely seen in such exhibitions at Pompeii than
at Rome.
As more attention came to be given to the outward appear-
ance of tombs, less was bestowed upon the adornment of the
sepulchral chamber. So in the tomb of Scaurus the burial vault
is low, cramped, and with plain white walls. A massive pillar,
as in the tomb of the Istacidii, supports the vaulted ceiling. It
is pierced by two openings, forming four niches, two on each
side. Three of these, when the tomb was opened, were closed
by panes of glass, and there were traces of a curtain that hung
over the one opposite the entrance. There were fourteen other
niches in the walls at the sides.
No name is associated with the third tomb (18 on the plan)
which, as shown by Plate IX, is simply a large cylinder of
masonry, the top of which probably had the shape of a trun-
cated cone ; the material is brick, with a facing of white stucco
lined off to give the appearance of blocks of marble. The base
is square; the enclosing wall is adorned yvith miniature towers.
The structure illustrates in its simplest form the type of the
massive tomb, or mausoleum, found at Rome ; we are at once
reminded of the imposing monument of Caecilia Metella on the
Appian Way, and of Hadrian’s Mausoleum in the city.
A blank tablet was placed by the builder on the front of the
enclosing wall to receive an inscription after his death. The
heirs, however, preferred to put the memorial on the tomb itself,
where the place of an inscription is plainly seen, the slab itself
having disappeared. The sepulchral chamber is in the super-
structure ; it was decorated with simple designs in the fourth
style on a white ground. There were only three niches, per-
haps for father, mother, and child ; the urns were let into the
bottoms of the niches, as often in the Roman columbaria.
One of the miniature towers on the enclosing wall is orna-
mented with a relief presenting a singular design; a woman in
mourning habit is laying a fillet on a skeleton reclining on a