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Saturday, January 11, 2020

REPUBLICAN TOMBS ON VIA STATILIA

SEPOLCRI REPUBBLICANI DI VIA STATILIA
Incrocio Via Statilia/Via S. Croce in Gerusalemme

Discovered in 1916 and now protected by a roof

The FIRST on the left is possibly the oldest, dating from about 100 BC, with a very small burial chamber: here was buried one Publius Quinctius a freedman bookseller, his wife and a concubine

The SECOND on the left is the beginning of the first century BC. There are two cells with adjacent doors decorated with busts of the dead: it is one of the oldest surviving examples of the custom of putting portraits on the façades of tombs

The THIRD is a columbarium almost destroyed

The FOURTH is a monument built as an altar of two Auli Caesoni and one Telgennia, the more recent of the four