Pompeii Porta Nocera Tombs. North east side of Via delle Tombe.

Tombs 4EN to 8EN.

Porta Nocera Tombs Plan

Tomb 4EN. Tomb of L. Cellius

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Tomb 4EN, tomb of L. Cellius, south side.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. December 2006. Tomb 4EN, south side.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. October 2024.

Tomb 4EN, south side, with marble plaque and arched niche. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2011. Tomb 4EN, marble plaque with Latin inscription. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tomb 4EN, marble plaque with Latin inscription:

L(ucio)   CELLIO   L(uci)   F(ilio)

MEN(enia)   II VIR  (duo vir(o))   I(ure)   D(icundo)  TR(ibuno)

MIL(itum)   A   POPVLO

EX  TESTAM(ento).

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983. Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera. Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (4EN).

Porta Nocera, tomb 4EN. February 2021. Limestone funerary portrait of a man, on display in Antiquarium.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Fronts of tombs 2EN, 4EN and 6EN.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tombs 6EN and 4EN, rear north sides.

Tomb 6EN. Tomb of an anonymous female

Pompeii Porta Nocera. 1959. Via delle Tombe, looking north to 2EN, 4EN, and 6EN with statue. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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Pompeii Porta Nocera. October 2024. Tomb 6EN, south side. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Tomb 6EN, tomb of an anonymous female.

A tufa head of a woman (SAP 10931) and a statue of a woman (SAP 13932) were found.

Both were in the style of Pudicitia, the Roman personification of modesty and chastity.

There was no epigraphic information to identify who the tomb belonged to.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. June 1962.

Tomb 6EN, marble female funerary statue found outside tomb of an anonymous female.

Photo by Brian Philp: Pictorial Colour Slides, forwarded by Peter Woods

(PCS POMPEII Statue of Woman Necropolis)

Pompeii Porta Nocera. Tomb 6EN. Found June 1954.

Found against the west side of front arch of the tomb between tombs 4EN and 6EN.

Marble female funerary statue. SAP 13932.

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983. Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera. Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (4EN).

Pompeii Porta Nocera, Tomb 6EN. February 2021.

Limestone funerary statue of a woman, on display in Antiquarium.

Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

Pompeii Porta Nocera, Tomb 6EN. February 2021.

Detail from Limestone funerary statue of a woman, on display in Antiquarium. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

Pompeii Porta Nocera, Tomb 6EN. February 2021.

Detail from Limestone funerary statue of a woman, on display in Antiquarium. Photo courtesy of Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (CC BY-NC-SA).

Pompeii Porta Nocera. September 2009. Tomb 6EN. Found June 1954.

Found against the west side of front arch of the tomb between tombs 4EN and 6EN.

Marble funerary statue of a woman draped in tunic and cape.

The statue is in the style of Pudicitia, the Roman personification of modesty and chastity.

The back of the statue has not been worked. SAP inventory number 13932.

Photographed at “A Day in Pompeii” exhibition at Melbourne Museum.  September 2009.

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983. Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera. Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (4EN).

See Brion, M., 1960. Pompeii and Herculaneum: The Glory and the Grief. London: Elek. (p.42, T: 7).

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Tomb 6EN, electoral inscriptions were found on the east wall of the niche arch.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006.

Tomb 6EN, large niche at front. Looking north. Electoral inscriptions were found on the east wall of the niche arch.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tombs 10EN, 8EN and 6EN, rear north sides.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tombs 10EN, 8EN, 6EN and 4EN, rear north sides.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Via delle Tombe, looking north to 6EN, 8EN and 10EN.

Tomb 8EN. Tomb of the Gens Aninia

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tomb 8EN, between 6EN and 10EN, looking west along rear north sides.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Tomb 8EN, tomb of the Gens Aninia. Looking north.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tomb 8EN between 10EN and 6EN. Looking south.

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2006. Tomb 8EN, columella with inscription:

ANINIA

DIDIME.

According to the Giornale di Scavo dated 5th July 1954 a second columella in travertine was found.

This columella (now lost) had the Latin inscription

ANINIA

[C]NAEI  L(iberti)  L(iberta)  TERTI(A?).

See D’Ambrosio, A. and De Caro, S., 1983. Un Impegno per Pompei: Fotopiano e documentazione della Necropoli di Porta Nocera. Milano: Touring Club Italiano. (8EN).

Pompeii Porta Nocera. May 2010. Tomb 8EN, columella with inscription of ANINIA DIDIME

Porta Nocera Tombs Plan