Pompeii, Its Life and Art - August Mau

On your head its fragrance shedding.'

All the pictures found in Pompeian wineshops bear out the inference, based upon numerous allusions in classical writers, that such places everywhere were in the main frequented by the lower classes; among the adjectives applied to taverns by the poets are 'dirty,' 'smoky,' and 'black.' They were haunted by gamblers and criminals, and the life was notoriously immoral.

PLAN V.—THE STREET OF TOMBS.
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KEY TO THE LEFT SIDE

24. Villa of Diomedes.
16-23. Tombs—Group III.
- 16. Unfinished tomb.
- 17. Tomb of Umbricius Scaurus.
- 18. Round tomb.
- 19. Sepulchral enclosure.
- 20. Tomb of Calventius Quietus.
- 21. Sepulchral enclosure of Istacidius Helenus.
- 22. Tomb of Naevoleia Tyche.
- 23. Triclinium Funebre.
5-15. So-called Villa of Cicero.
1-4 a. Tombs—Group I.
- 1. Sepulchral niche of Cerrinius Restitutus.
- 2. Sepulchral bench of A. Veius.
- 3. Tomb of M. Porcius.
- 4. Sepulchral bench of Mamia.
- 4 a. Tomb of the Istacidii.
A. Herculaneum Gate.
C. Bay Road.

KEY TO THE RIGHT SIDE

33-43. Tombs—Group IV.
- 33. Unfinished tomb.
- 34. Tomb with the marble door.
- 35. Unfinished tomb.
- 36. Sepulchral enclosure with small pyramids.
- 37. Tomb of Luccius Libella.
- 38. Tomb of Ceius Labeo.
- 39. Tomb without a name.
- 40. Sepulchral niche of Salvius.
- 41. Sepulchral niche of Velasius Gratus.
- 42. Tomb of M. Arrius Diomedes.
- 43. Tomb of Arria.
31-32. Samnite Graves.
10-30. Villa.
- 10, 11, 13, 14. Shops.
- 12. Garden belonging to Tombs 8 and 9.
- 15. Street entrance of Inn.
- 16-28. Rooms belonging to the Inn.
- 29-30. Potter's establishment.
1-9. Tombs—Group II.
- 1. Tomb without a name.
- 2. Sepulchral enclosure of Terentius Felix.
- 3, 4. Tombs without names.
- 5. Sepulchral enclosure.
- 6. Garland tomb.
- 7. Sepulchral enclosure.
- 8. Tomb of the Blue Glass Vase.
- 9. Sepulchral niche.
A. Herculaneum Gate.
B. City Wall.
D. Road along City Wall.
E-E. Vesuvius Road.