. Pompeii : its life and art . years of thecity; the stones of the pavement and sidewalk had been re-moved. The monuments, however, were large and stately,erected by people of means, and the ruins are characteristic andimpressive. The tombs were built of common materials, stuccobeing used on exposed surfaces instead of marble. The sim-plicity of construction, and the shapes of the letters in the elec-tion notices and other inscriptions painted on them, suggest arelatively early date, which is confirmed by the age of the coinsfound in the urns; themonuments belorfg to theearly decades of the Em
. Pompeii : its life and art . years of thecity; the stones of the pavement and sidewalk had been re-moved. The monuments, however, were large and stately,erected by people of means, and the ruins are characteristic andimpressive. The tombs were built of common materials, stuccobeing used on exposed surfaces instead of marble. The sim-plicity of construction, and the shapes of the letters in the elec-tion notices and other inscriptions painted on them, suggest arelatively early date, which is confirmed by the age of the coinsfound in the urns; themonuments belorfg to theearly decades of the Em-pire. The first tomb at theright (No. 1 on the plan)was built in the form ofa commemorative arch,with pilasters at the cor-ners. Above was a lowcylinder surmounted bya truncated cone, on whichstood a terminal memberin the shape of a pine cone,found near by. The cine-rary urn was buried in theearth below an opening in the floor of the passage under the arch (shown in the plan). Noname appears in connection with this Fig. j .1 l I 1-1 1 lQM Plan of the tombs east of the Amphi-theatre. 424 POMPEII Another monument of the arch type, that of Mancius Diog-enes, is seen on the opposite side of the street (5; Fig. 238).The structure is shallow, the vaulted opening low. On the topof the arch were three niches, in which stood three travertinestatues; two of these, both of women, have been preserved,and are of indifferent workmanship. A marble tablet wasplaced in front, over the vault, with the inscription, P. MancioP. l\iberto\ Diogeni ex festamento arbitratu Manciae P. libertae
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