VII.16.a Pompeii. Suburban Baths. Outside areas to west and south.

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VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010.  Looking east from lower area.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. Room in south-east corner of lower area.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. Room in south-east corner and doorway to roadway outside, looking east.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010.

Site of cippus of Suedius Clemens in roadway, against exterior wall of lower rooms.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. Site of cippus of Suedius Clemens, on left side of photo.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii.  1980-1990. Road to Porta Marina next to the Suburban Baths.

Cippus of T. Suedius Clemens.  SAP inventory 40686. The rougher lower part would have been in the ground.

The cippus is inscribed:

 

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, 

 

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 Ercolano, Porta Vesuvio and the Porta Nocera.

See Conticello, B., Ed, 1990. Rediscovering Pompeii. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. (p. 225).

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. September 2005. Entrances, from road leading to Porta Marina.

 

VII.16.a Suburban Baths. May 2011. Looking north to entrance.

Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west across room 16, with stairs in south west corner.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. Stairs in corner of room 16, looking north across courtyard C.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. Looking west across courtyard C, from corridor B.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010.  Courtyard C looking north, from corridor B.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. September 2005. 

Looking north to remains of room on west side of room 2, the hot pool.

 

VII.16.a Suburban Baths. May 2011. Looking north.

Photo courtesy of Michael Binns.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. Room at the north end of courtyard C.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010. North wall of room at the north end of courtyard C.

 

VII.16.a Pompeii. May 2010.

Room at the north end of courtyard C, with remains of large piece of debris from the eruption.

 

 

 

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