Seat-tombs (G4—9)
Outside the Herculaneum Gate (G4)
G4 CIL X 996 (tomb 2 left)
To Aulus Veius, son of Marcus, duumvir with judicial power twice, quinquennial, military tribune by popular demand. By decree of the town councillors.
See E40 for Mamia (Tomb 4 left).
Outside the Nolan Gate (G5)
This tomb is Tiberian/Claudian in date. In the middle at the back of the semicircular seat is a column with an Ionic capital, supporting a marble vase.
G5 AE (1911) 71
Numerius Herennius Celsus, son of Numerius, of the Menenian tribe, duumvir with judicial power twice, staff officer, to Aesquillia Polla, daughter of Gaius, his wife. She lived 22 years; a burial place was given publicly by decree of the town councillors.
Outside the Stabian Gate (G6—8)
G6—7 had both ceased to be looked after by AD 79, since rubbish was found dumped in them, including other funerary inscriptions. For Marcus Tullius, see also E32—33. Further on from them was a variation on the seat-type of tomb, which was rectilinear in plan rather than semicircular (G8). A large marble relief was found with it, depicting a procession, gladiatorial games and beast hunts.
G6 EE VIII no. 330
To Marcus Tullius, son of Marcus, by decree of the town councillors.
G7 EE VIII no. 318
To Marcus Alleius Minius, son of Quintus, of the Menenian tribe, duumvir with judicial power; a place for burial was given publicly by decree of the town councillors.
G8 CIL X 1065
To Gnaeus Clovatius, son of Gnaeus, duumvir with judicial power, military tribune; [burial] place [given in accordance with a decree of the town councillors].
Outside the Vesuvian Gate (G9)
Arellia Tertulla was possibly the wife of Marcus Stlaborius Veius Fronto, a prominent magistrate, who was quinquennial in AD 25/6.
G9 NSc (1910) 405
To [Ar]ellia Tertulla, daughter of Numerius, wife of Veius Fronto. To her the town councillors gave a burial place after her death and decreed a funeral at public expense.
Other public tombs (G10—12)
Not all people honoured with public tombs were prominent magistrates, benefactors or priestesses, or married to such. Although granting a seat-tomb appears to have been the highest public acknowledgement for an individual after his or her death, other degrees of public honour were also granted to individuals. Some of these individuals were young men who had started upon their careers in public life, but had died before advancing far. It is likely that these young men were honoured as much for the prominence of the family they had just departed as for any achievements of their own. See also F87—88, F91.
Outside the Vesuvian Gate (G10)
G10 is displayed on a high podium supporting a column, which perhaps originally bore a vase, like the tomb of Aesquillia Polla (G5). For another honorific tomb in this area, see F88.
G10 AE (1913) 71
To Septumia, daughter of Lucius. Granted by decree of the town councillors a burial place and 2,000 sesterces for the funeral. Antistia Prima, daughter of Publius, her daughter, built (this monument).
Outside the Herculaneum Gate (G11)
A Titus Terentius Felix appears as a witness in Tablet 80 from the Iucundus archive (CIL IV 3340.80, undatable), so if this is the same man, as seems likely, he may have died some time after AD 62 (the date of the latest tablet). A glass urn was found underneath a small altar to the left of the entrance to his tomb enclosure. Nearby were the urns of other family members.
G11 CIL X 1019 (tomb 2 right)
To Titus Terentius Felix Maior, son of Titus, of the Menenian tribe, aedile. To him publicly a place given and 2,000 sesterces. Fabia Sabina, daughter of Probus, his wife.
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