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Title: Pompeii : its life and art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mau, August, 1840-1909
Subjects: Pompeii (Extinct city)
Publisher: New York Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is adorned with miniature towers.The structure illustrates in its simplest form the type of themassive tomb, or mausoleum, found at Rome ; we are at oncereminded of the imposing monument of Caecilia Metella on theAppian Way, and of Hadrians Mausoleum in the city. A blank tablet was placed by the builder on the front of theenclosing wall to receive an inscription after his death. Theheirs, however, preferred to put the memorial on the tomb itself,where the place of an inscription is plainly seen, the slab itselfhaving disappeared. The sepulchral chamber is in the super-structure ; it was decorated with simple designs in the fourthstyle on a white ground. There were only three niches, per-haps for father, mother, and child ; the urns were let into thebottoms 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 inmourning habit is laying a fillet on a skeleton reclining on a
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JZ&J^ )*. THE STREET OF TOMBS 4i3 heap of stones (Fig. 231). The scene may be interpreted assymbolizing the grief of a mother for a dead son. There is only a simple tombstone in the burial lot (19) beyondthe round monument. Next comes the beautiful tomb of Cal-ventius Quietus (20), which may be seen in Plate IX, as well asthe tomb of Naevoleia Tyche (22; further to the right). Be-tween these two is a walled enclosure (21) without a door, inwhich are three bust stones. The largest stone bears the nameN. Istacidius Helenus; in front of one of the others a small jar wasset to receive offerings for the dead. On the front of the enclos-ing wall is a tablet on which the names of N. Istacidius Janua-rius and of Mesonia Satulla appear withthat of Helenus ; they were all freedmenof the Istacidii (p. 404). The monuments of Quietus and ofTyche are the finest examples of thealtar type at Pompeii. Both are orna-mented in good taste, but the carvingsof the former are more delicate, whilethe mot

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