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behtftd, which proves that these were heads sawn half through, 

 the back pait having still the mark of the hair, and the flattened 

 face hearing an inscription. These heads are thus figured in 

 the work of M. de Clarac, entitled "Pompeia," and in that of 

 M. Mazoi. M. Millin gives in a note the inscriptions which he 

 remarked upon these stones. 



Close by the monument of Naevolcia there is also an inclo- 

 sure, within which instead of a tomb is a tricliniuvi, which was 

 probably one of its appendages, although there is no inscription 

 to make it known, nor any communication between the two 

 monuments. This Iriclinimn is built of brick, and covered with 

 stucco : it is of a sloping form towards the walls, and rises towards 

 the square table which is in the middle. It w-as destined to re- 

 present the funereal repose, of which mention is so often made 

 in ancient inscriptions. It is also figured in the first plate. 



We now come to the last tomb described by M. Millin, and 

 which is also engraved in the first plate. This tomb is in the 

 form of an altar, and is built of (juadrangular stones carefully 

 hewn. On three sides of a square stone is this inscription in 

 beautiful characters : 



M. ALLEIO I.VCCIO LIBELUE PATRI 



AKJ)IM II VIR PRAEFECTO QVINQ ET 



M ALLEIO LIBELLAE F DECVRIOM VIXIT 



ANNIS XVIl LOCVS MONVMENTI PVBLIC» 



I>ATVS EST ALLEIA M F 



DECIMILLA SACERDOS PVULICA 



CERERIS FACIVNDVM CVRAVIT VIRO 



ET FILIO 



" To Marcus Alleius Luccius Libella, the father, ^Edile II Fir, 

 prefect for five years, and to Marcus Alleius Libclla, his son, 

 Decurio, Vv'ho live(J 17 years. The ground for this monument 

 was given bv the people. Alleia Decimilla, daughter of M. public 

 priestess of Ceres, took care to see it executed for her husband 

 and her son." 



M. Millin here terminates his present labours ; and with the 

 generous feelings peculiar to a man of true genius and learning, 

 he informs us that he would have been still more ample in his 

 details, but for an intended publication by M. Mazoi, to be 

 entitled " The Ruins of Pompeia," and which is now in the 

 press. 



M. Millin, with all the fire of a classical antic^uarian, thus 

 expresses his indignation against those who have defaced many 

 of the beautiful monuments of Pompeia, by chipping off fragments 

 or carving tlieir names upon the most conspicuous places. With 

 this honest effusion we shall close our account of his valuable 

 work. 



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