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account of their merits. Naevoleia Tyche has caiised this monu- 

 ment to be erected while still alive, for her freed men, her freed 

 women, and for C. Munatius son of Faustus." 



Under this inscription is a bas-relief representing the solemn 

 sacrifice which proliably took ))lace at the funeral of Munatius. 

 This bas-relief and the inscription have a very rich frame-worlt, 

 in the centre of which, and above, is the bust of Naevoleia Tyche 

 who constructed the monument. On one of the sides we see 

 the bisell'uim of Mimatius : it is less ornamented than that of 

 Calventius, and is placed within a frame-work of flowers and 

 kaves of the acavtlms. The other side has, in the midst of a 

 frame precisely similar, a beautiful marble bas-relief representing 

 a bark freighted with four funeral genii, who perform the office 

 of boatmen. One of these is in the act of ascending the princi- 

 pal rope, and lowering the sail which two oth.ers are occupied in 

 furling on the yard : the fourth, who is standing upright, seems 

 to direct this manoeuvre, and to superintend its execution, 

 M. Millin regards t'lis manceuvre as an ingenious allegory of the 

 painful voyage which the soul is compelled to take in this life : 

 after many storms, he observes, death offers a secure harbour, 

 and it is into this harbour that Naevoleia, who is stationed on 

 the pooj) covered like the shades of the departed with a long- 

 veil, is about to enter. All these details are exhibited in the 

 seventh and last plate. 



In the interior of this tomb, which is square, several vases of 

 a red earth were found, with figures on them in relief; these 

 vases appear to be Galli-", if Ave were to judge bv the nature of 

 the earth, the workmanship of the relievo, and the style of the 

 design : they completely resemble those which are found in such 

 almndance in France, Belgium, aiid Great Britain. M. Millin 

 does not think it more astonishing that an inhabitant of Ponf- 

 peia should possess Gallic vases, than to see nowadays at Naples 

 porcelain from Saxony, Sevres, China, and Japan, (ilass phials 

 have also been found filled with a reddish water which had pro- 

 bably contained an animal substance. These were so well 

 closed up, that the liquor was not evaporated, and it had a nau- 

 seous taste. 



Close to the entrance of the tomb is one of these marble pi- 

 lasters surmounted by a ball, which are very common at Pompeia. 

 These marbles are generally sawed throughout their whole length, 

 and they bear an inscription; M. Millin has engraved one of 

 them in the first plate. These stones were simple commemora- 

 tions : M. Millin thought at first that their iorm was allegorical, 

 and a symbol of Fatality, expressed by the sphere, which Lachesis 

 \ises to draw the horoscope of men. Snbse([uently, however, 

 it was found that there was the representation of liuman hair 



behind. 



