HGE43 Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate East Side. Tomb of P. Sittius Diophantus (Kockel)?

Tomb of the Arria (Eschebach). (Eschebach East 43, Kockel Nord 43).

 

According to Kockel two tablets were found in 1873. Sogliano recorded the inscriptions

 

P SITTIVS DIOPHANTVS

AVGVSTALIS      [CIL X 1034]

 

[3] X ANCILE

[3] CILT RVFI

[3 VI]XIT AN(NOS) XX       [CIL X 1035]

 

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

 

P(ublius) Sittius Diophantus

Augustalis      [CIL X 1034]

 

]x Ancile

[3]cilt Rufi

[3 vi]xit an(nos) XX       [CIL X 1035]

 

See Kockel V., 1983. Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji. Mainz: von Zabern. (p. 183).

See Giornale degli Scavi di Pompei, N.S. 3, 1874, 7 and 8.

 

HGE43 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking north from Via dei Sepolcri towards front of tomb. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. May 2006. South side. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. May 2006. South side and east side with two openings. 

 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. South-east corner of tomb. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. Lower opening in east side of tomb. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking inside through upper opening in east side of tomb. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. East and north sides. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. North side of tomb. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking east along north side. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. West side of tomb. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south along east side and wall that connects to HGE42. 

 

HGE43 Pompeii. December 2006. Looking south-west across boundary wall to HGE42.

 

HGE43 Pompeii. Postcard c.1870. Looking across HGE43 (front left) and HGE42 along Via dei Sepolcri.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.