HGW18 Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate West Side. Tomb of Caius Fabius Secundus?

Tomba rotunda o del fanciullo. Sepolcro rotunda. (Eschebach West 18, Kockel Süd 18).

HGW18 Pompeii, on right. May 2024.

Looking west towards doorway to tomb, with doorway to HGW17, on left. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance to tomb on Via dei Sepolcri, looking west.

HGW18 Pompeii. 1763. Three pieces of a white marble plaque were found.

These made the inscription:

ABIO SECVNDO

MARCIA AVCTA

VXOR

FECIT ET SIBI ET

FABIAE C F GRATINAE

FILIAE

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this read

[C(aio) F]abio Secundo

Marcia Aucta

Uxor

fecit et sibi et

Fabiae C(ai) f(iliae) Gratinae

filiae      [CIL X 1003]

See Fiorelli G., 1860. Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1: 1748 - 1818, Naples, 149-150, 9th April 1763.

See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern. (p. 85-6).

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2024.

Looking west towards south end of east side of tomb. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2024.

Looking west towards small doorway to tomb at north end of east wall. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west to front (east wall) wall of tomb.

According to Kockel;

On the right of the marble tablet was a painted inscription

GEMELLVS

CVM PROCLO HAC

Underneath was the inscription

MONVMENTVM

A

On the left of the marble tablet was the inscription

GLYCO CVM MARTIAL

SOLE CALENTE SITIES

Underneath was the inscription

GEMELLVS CESERNINE

SAL

See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern.  (p. 86).

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) these read

Gemellus

cum Proclo hac      [CIL IV 88]

Glyco cum Martial[e]

sole calente sities h[ac]      [CIL IV 89]

Gemellus C(a)esernin(a)e

sal(ve)      [CIL IV 90]

Monumentum

A      [CIL IV 1205]

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2010. Looking south to circular tomb chamber.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2006. Entrance to circular tomb chamber on west side.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2010. Entrance to circular tomb chamber.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2010. Circular tomb chamber entrance and step.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2010. Doorway on west side.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2010. Floor inside the circular chamber.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2006. Circular chamber, south-east side.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking across tomb enclosure to circular chamber, south-east side.

HGW18 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north-west across Tomb enclosure.

HGW18 Pompeii. 1813 drawing of HGW17 (left) and HGW18 (right).

See Millin A., 1813. Description des Tombeaux de Pompei. Naples: L’Imprimerie Royale, (Tav II).

HGW18 Pompeii. 1884 drawing of tomb showing pilasters with stucco.

See Overbeck J., 1884. Pompeji in seinen Gebäuden, Alterthümen und Kunstwerken. Leipzig: Engelmann. (p. 418).

HGW18 Pompeii. 1884 drawing of stucco bas relief of a woman holding a cloth band over a skeleton.

This decorated one of the pilasters with little pyramids on the surrounding wall.

See Overbeck J., 1884. Pompeji in seinen Gebäuden, Alterthümen und Kunstwerken. Leipzig: Engelmann. (p. 419, fig.221).

HGW18 Pompeii. 1813 drawing of a stucco bas relief of a woman holding cloth band and patera above an altar with fruits on it.

This decorated one of the pilasters with little pyramids on the surrounding wall.

See Millin A., 1813. Description des Tombeaux de Pompei. Naples: L’Imprimerie Royale, (p. 71, Tav III, 5).

HGW18 Pompeii. 1884 drawing of cross section of tomb.

See Overbeck J., 1884. Pompeji in seinen Gebäuden, Alterthümen und Kunstwerken. Leipzig: Engelmann. (p. 419, fig. 220).