. Pompeii : its life and art . ace of burial was given by the city, with two thousand ses-terces. His wife, Fabia Sabina, daughter of Probus Fabius,(built this monument). Pompeians who were Roman citizenswere enrolled in the tribe Menenia. The cinerary urn of Felix was of glass. It was protected bya lead case and placed in an earthen jar, which was buried inthe earth under a small altar or table of masonry against thewall on the left as one enters. Here also was a tombstone,with the inscription, To the elder Terentius ; he probably lefta son with the same name. In the urn, or near it, were fou
. Pompeii : its life and art . ace of burial was given by the city, with two thousand ses-terces. His wife, Fabia Sabina, daughter of Probus Fabius,(built this monument). Pompeians who were Roman citizenswere enrolled in the tribe Menenia. The cinerary urn of Felix was of glass. It was protected bya lead case and placed in an earthen jar, which was buried inthe earth under a small altar or table of masonry against thewall on the left as one enters. Here also was a tombstone,with the inscription, To the elder Terentius ; he probably lefta son with the same name. In the urn, or near it, were foundtwo coins, one of Augustus, the other of Claudius, deposited to 406 POMPEII pay the fare of Charon The right side of the enclosure wasset off by a low wall; here several urns belonging to othermembers of the household were buried. Shells of oysters andother shellfish were found in the main room, remains of abanquet in honor of the dead; the libations were poured uponthe earth above the urns. The plan of this tomb closely re-. Fig. 228. — View of the Street of the left, the Bay Road and remains of the so-called villa of Cicero; at the right, Gar-land tomb, foundation of the tomb of the Blue Glass Vase, and semicircular niche. sembles that of the enclosure in front of the Doric temple inthe Forum Triangulare (p. 133). Of the remaining tombs of the second group, two are promi-nent, and may readily be distinguished in the accompanyingillustration (Fig. 228), the so-called Garland tomb (6 on theplan), and the roofed semicircular niche at the end (9). TheGarland tomb has the shape of a temple, with pilasters insteadof columns, between which hang festoons of leaves and is solid; the cinerary urn was probably placed underneath. THE STREET OF TOMBS 407 The form of the second story cannot be determined. The ma-terial is tufa, coated with white stucco, and the monument is oneof the oldest in the series, dating from the end of the Republic. Adjoining the Garland tom
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