Via dei Sepolcri includes the remains of:
Via Pomeriale, west part, at the side of the Villa di Cicerone on the west side of Via dei Sepolcri
Via Pomeriale, east part, between tombs HGE01 and HGE03 on the east side of Via dei Sepolcri
Via Superior, the junction on the east side of the road to the north of the Villa of the Mosaic Columns, which led to the front of the Villa of Mysteries.
Via dei Sepolcri, east side. December 2006. Looking south from the Villa of the Mosaic Columns.
Via dei Sepolcri, May 2010. Looking north from near HGW08.
Via dei Sepolcri, east side, May 2010. Looking north from HGE08.
Via dei Sepolcri, east side, about 1900. Looking north from HGE08. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Via dei Sepolcri, Pompeii.
From an Album by M. Amodio,
c.1880, entitled “Pompei, destroyed on 23 November 79, discovered in 1748”.
Looking north. Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Via dei Sepolcri,
Pompeii. From
an album dated c.1875-1885. Looking
north. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Via dei Sepolcri, west side, May 2010. Looking north from HGW07.
Via dei Sepolcri, May 2010. Looking north from HGW06.
Via dei Sepolcri, Pompeii. 1957. Looking north along the east side. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.
Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.
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Via dei Sepolcri, Pompeii. April 2014. Looking north. Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Via dei Sepolcri, Pompeii. October 2001. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Peter Woods.
Via dei Sepolcri, Pompeii. 8th August
1976. Looking
north along east side of roadway, with HGE04, on right.
Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.
Via dei
Sepolcri, Pompeii. From an album dated January
28, 1894. Looking north. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Via dei Sepolcri. Looking north from the Herculaneum Gate. 1886 painting by Alfred Rettelbusch.
Photo courtesy of © Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg.
Via dei Sepolcri. Old postcard by Trampetti. Looking south towards Herculaneum Gate. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.
Via dei
Sepolcri near Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. Cippus of Suedius Clemens.
Found 16th August 1763, on the south of the street close to the entrance to HGW05, almost opposite to the circular seat of Mamia.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 3848.
The inscription reads
EX AVCTORITATE
IMP CAESARIS
VESPASIANI AVG
LOCA PVBLICA A
PRIVATIS
POSSESSA T
SVEDIVS CLEMENS
TRIBVNVS CAVSIS
COGNITIS ET
MENSVRIS FACTIS
REI
PVBLICAE
POMPEIANORVM
RESTITVIT [CIL X 1018]
According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this reads
Ex auctoritate
Imp(eratoris)
Caesaris
Vespasiani
Aug(usti)
loca publica a
privatis
possessa T(itus) Suedius
Clemens
tribunus causis
cognitis et
mensuris factis
rei
publicae
Pompeianorum
restituit [CIL X 1018]
By virtue of authority conferred upon him by the Emperor Vespasian Caesar Augustus,
Titus Suedius Clemens, tribune, having investigated the facts and taken measurements,
restored to the citizens of Pompeii public places illegally appropriated by private persons.
Similar Cippi were found at the Porta Marina, Porta Nocera and the Porta Vesuvio.
The wording “rei publicae Pompeianorum” on one of these, discovered in 1763, was the first positive identification that the site was Pompeii.
Until then scholars had divided opinions on the city buried under Civita. Many, including the first official excavators, thought it was the ancient city of Stabiae.
See Conticello,
B., Ed, 1990. Rediscovering Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p.
225).
Via dei Sepolcri near Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. On 16th August 1763 an inscribed cippus was found.
This confirmed that the Cività was in fact the site of Pompeii.
Also found was a consular statue of marble.
The cippus is now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 3848.
The statue is now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 6235.
See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol.
1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 1
153, add. 114, n.12.
Via dei Sepolcri near Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. Inscription in the Via dei Sepolcri, photo between 1869-1877.
Photo by John Henry Parker (1806-1884) courtesy of the British School at Rome Digital Collections.
See https://digitalcollections.bsr.ac.uk/islandora/object/PARKER:1053
Via dei Sepolcri
near Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. 1970.
Possible statue of Suedius Clemens in Pompeii Antiquarium, previously identified as such.
Via dei Sepolcri near Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. Statue of Suedius Clemens, previously identified as such.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 6235.
DAIR 39.923.
Photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv.
Via dei Sepolcri near Porta Ercolano or Herculaneum Gate. 1845 drawing of street, tombs and gate.
Via
dei Sepolcri. Pre-1824 painting “Entrée de Pompei du Cote d’Herculanum” by
Jakob Wilhelm Huber.
See Huber, J. W.,
1824. Vues pittoresques des ruines les plus remarquables de l’ancienne
ville de Pompei, pl. III.
Via dei Sepolcri. Pre-1824 aquatint “Entrée de
Pompei du Cote d’Herculanum” by Jakob Wilhelm Huber.
See Huber, J. W., 1824. Vues pittoresques des
ruines les plus remarquables de l’ancienne ville de Pompei, pl. III.
Via dei Sepolcri, September 2021.
Looking south towards Via Pomeriale east
part, on left, and Herculaneum Gate. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Via dei Sepolcri, May 2010. Looking south from HGW07 towards Via Pomeriale east part and Herculaneum Gate.
Via dei Sepolcri. Stereoview by R. Rive, c.1860-1870s. Looking south towards Herculaneum Gate. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. 2546/110671 (Vetter 9-10)._
According to the information card – it reads –
“P. Matius (son of) P. and Nimsius Maraius (son of P.), aediles, delimited the Via Salina (Salina road) and …… the road is wide …….perticae.”
Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.
(Note: the word “perticae” is a Roman rod measuring 10 feet.)
Via dei Sepolcri,
(?), Pompeii. Detail from information card in Naples Archaeological Museum.
Photo courtesy of
Giuseppe Ciaramella, June 2017.
Via Pomeriale, east part. May 2006. Leading from Via dei Sepolcri to the city walls and to tomb HGE02.
For a description of Via Pomeriale, city walls and towers –
See Notizie
degli Scavi di Antichità, 1944-45, p. 275 -294.
Via Pomeriale, May 2010. Looking north along Via dei Sepolcri from the east part of Via Pomeriale.
The entrance to the west part of Via Pomeriale was on the left, near the first tree and where the kerb is missing.
From an album
of
Michele Amodio dated 1874, entitled
“Pompei, destroyed on 23 November 79, discovered in 1745”.
Looking north along Via dei Sepolcri from the east part of Via Pomeriale, on right.
The entrance to the
west part of Via Pomeriale was on the left where the kerb is missing. Photo
courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Via dei Sepolcri. Old postcard, c.1869. Looking north showing the east and west parts of Via Pomeriale.
The entrance to the west part can be seen directly opposite to where the lady is sitting. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.
Via dei Sepolcri. September 2021.
Looking north through Herculaneum Gate, with east part of Via Pomeriale, on right.
The entrance to the west part can be seen at the end of the new fence, on the left, by the tree.
Photo
courtesy of Klaus Heese.
Via Pomeriale west part. December 2006. Site of entrance from Via dei Sepolcri, to left of the entrance to the Villa di Cicerone.
Via Pomeriale. December 2006. The site of HGW04a is to right.
Via Pomeriale. About 1834. With HGW04a and the site of the street altar as shown by Mazois.
Pompeii street shrine on the corner of Via Pomeriale. Drawing of street shrine, published in 1824.
See Mazois, F., 1824. Les Ruines de Pompei : Premiere Partie. Paris
: Didot Frères, (p.33),
Via Pomeriale. 1804 drawing of street passing to right of entrance to rear of HGW04a.
See Piranesi, F,
1804. Antiquités de la Grande Grèce : Tome I. Paris : Piranesi and Le
Blanc, (pl. 42).