Ancient Rome Pictures: Pompeii

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photos by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D.

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Ancient Pompeii: House of the Surgeon
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	Exterior View from the Main Street
Main Atrium of the House as viewed through the front door	Front Door of the Surgeon's House	Atrium and Interior Rooms as viewed through the side door

Cork Model of Pompeii
in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli
	House of the Surgeon	Street and Neighborhood of the Surgeon's House
	Main Forum in Pompeii	Northern Corner of Pompeii: Area of Surgeon's House
	Wall Map of Pompeii: showing extent of excavations (North is to the left)	Wall Map: Close-up of area of Surgeon's House (in the middle of the photo)

Other Scenes from Pompeii

	Inside the Forum of Pompeii	A street near the Forum
	Yale students touring the Forum	Entrance to the Building of Eumachia (on the East side of the Forum of Pompeii) (with a dedicatory inscription - see below)
	Map of the Villa of the Mysteries (in the Archaeological Museum, Naples)	Tomb of Mamia, a priestess (just West of Pompeii, shown to us by Allen Hunt) (with a funerary inscription - see below)
	Dean Bechard describing the Villa	Ancient Olive Press inside the Villa of the Mysteries

The Eumachia Inscription (CIL 10.810):

EVMACHIA · L · F · SACERD · PVBL · NOMINE · SVO · ET
M · NVMISTRI · FRONTONIS · FILI · CHALCIDICVM · CRYPTAM · PORTICVS · CONCORDIAE
AVGVSTAE · PIETATI · SUA · PEQVNIA · FECIT · EADEMQVE · DEDICAVIT

Eumachia, daughter of Lucius [Eumachius], a public priestess, in her own name and
[in the name] of her son, Marcus Numistrius Fronto, built the chalcidicum, the porticus, and the crypta
at her own expense, and dedicated them to Concordia Augusta and to Pietas.

[See also the Pompeii Forum Project website by Prof. John J. Dobbins, University of Virginia]

The Mamia Funerary Inscription (CIL 10.998):

MAMIAE P F SACERDOTI PVBLICAE LOCVS SEPVLTVR(ae) DATVS DECVRIONVM DECRETO

To [the memory of] Mamia, daughter of Publius [Mamius], a public priestess. A place for burial was given by a decree of the decurions [i.e., the city council].

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