Transcription of some funerary inscriptions from LUCENTUM

Funerary monuments of various sizes were placed along the Roman roads at the entrances to the cities, marking the burial sites along their banks. This can be seen in the reconstruction of the access to Lucentum or on the Via dei Sepulchi, which led to the Herculaneum gate in Pompeii.

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La Via dei Sepolcri a Pompei, by Alessandro La Volpe(1820-1887). Oil
In: The value of the paintings of the Ottocento and the early Novecento"XXIX Edition (2011 - 2012), p.409. Ed. Umberto Allemandi & C.
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The MARQ conserves the original funerary inscriptions of several people buried at the entrances to the city.

Publius Astranius Venustus, freedman and sevir augustal
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Publius Fulvius Asclas, a foreign resident of Pompeii
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Funerary cypse of Hermeros and Pyraltide, slaves
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It was also found in Lucentum a funerary sculpture of a character dressed in pallium (the toga of the Republican period). We know he is a young man from the pendant (bulla) hanging from their necks, worn by the freeborn.

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