CLAS 3P22 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Battlement, Sumptuary Law, Appian Way
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Elite tombs of the early augustan period: burials constructed with socio-political reasons, creating final resting place but also using symbols, sizes, location, expense, compared to size of unrs for cremations burials, ofen over the top. Nerva, lucius and gaius, germanicus: english school- engraving, 18th c, added decoration to front (lions, gardens) Inscriptions: 1) gaius son of lucius pobilia, praetor, tribune of plebs, 2) completed in accordance in will by son lucius publius mela. Interior: barrel vault, third style painting (one of the earliest examples, robbed and defaced in antiquity (hole dug in to rob) Outside rome on via ostiense: related statues decorated the exterior, other tombs nearby. It was surrounded by countryside until 3rd ce. Original gate (beside pyramid of cestius: built by maxentius- 4th c, porta san paolo- lead to basilica san paolo outside walls in 4th c, general baliserius rebuilt gate in 6th ce.
