HGW04 Pompeii. Herculaneum Gate West Side. Schola Tomb of Mamia (or Mammia).

Excavated 1763. (Eschebach West 4, Kockel Süd 4).

HGW04 Pompeii. November 2023. Looking west to schola with inscription. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

HGW04 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking west towards the schola tomb of Mamia with inscription. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW04 Pompeii. April 2014. Looking west towards the Latin inscription on the schola tomb of Mamia. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

On the seat is the Latin inscription:

MAMIAE P F SACERDOTI PVBLICAE LOCVS SEPVLTVR DATVS DECVRIONVM DECRETO.

According to Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) this reads

Mamiae(!) P(ubli) f(iliae) sacerdoti publicae locus sepultur(ae) datus decurionum decreto      [CIL X 998]

According to Cooley this translates as

To Mamia, daughter of Publius, public priestess, a place for burial was given by decree of the town councillors.

See Cooley, A. and M.G.L., 2004. Pompeii: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge. (p. 97, E40).

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2006. On the seat is the Latin inscription:

MAMIAE P F SACERDOTI PVBLICAE LOCVS SEPVLTVR DATVS DECVRIONVM DECRETO.

HGW04 Pompeii. November 2023. Looking towards south end of schola tomb of Mamia. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2006. South end of schola tomb of Mamia.

HGW04 Pompeii. September 2021.

Looking west towards the south end of schola tomb with inscription. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW04 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking west towards detail of the inscription. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW04 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking north-west towards detail of the inscription. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW04 Pompeii. September 2021. Looking north-west towards the north end of the inscription. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW04 Pompeii. 2015/2016. Inscription at north end on rear of schola tomb of Mamia. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2006. Inscription at north end on rear of schola tomb of Mamia. 

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking towards north end of schola tomb of Mamia. 

HGW04 Pompeii. April 2014. Looking west towards the schola tomb of Mamia, on right. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2015. Division between HGW03 left and HGW04 right. Photo courtesy of Buzz Ferebee.

HGW04 Pompeii. December 2007. Division between HGW03 left and HGW04 right.

HGW04 Pompeii. April 2014. Looking towards the schola tomb of Mamia, in the foreground. Photo courtesy of Klaus Heese.

HGW04 Pompeii. December 2007. Looking towards the schola tomb of Mamia, in the foreground.

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2006. Looking west towards the schola tomb of Mamia. 

According to PAH, 6 January 1785, the seat with the inscription to the priestess Mammia, which was taken 2nd August 1763 and sent to the Royal Museum at Portici was put back in its original site.

1785 6 Gennaio - Si rimette nel suo antico sito il sedile di piperno coll’iscrizione della Sacerdotessa Mammia, che ne fu tolto a' 2 agosto 1763, e mandato al R. Museo di Portici.

See Fiorelli, Pompeianarum antiquitatum historia, Vol. 1 1748 to 1818, (p. 24-5).

HGW04 Pompeii. 8th August 1976. Schola tomb of Mamia, in foreground.

Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer, from Dr George Fay’s slides collection.

HGW04 Pompeii. 1961. Looking west towards the schola tomb of Mamia. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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HGW04 Pompeii. 1961.

Looking towards the schola tomb of Mamia, in the foreground. Photo by Stanley A. Jashemski.

Source: The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License v.4. See Licence and use details.

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HGW04 Pompeii. Drawing by Chenavard of the schola seat of Mamia.

See Chenavard, Antoine-Marie (1787-1883) et al. Voyage d'Italie, croquis Tome 3, pl. 74.

INHA Identifiant numérique : NUM MS 703 (3). See Book on INHA

Document placé sous « Licence Ouverte / Open Licence » Etalab   

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2006. Schola tomb of Mamia, with HGW4a in background. 

HGW04 Pompeii. Old postcard by Pasquale. Photo courtesy of Drew Baker.

HGW02-4 Pompeii, with HGW04, on right. Looking north-west.

Photo by permission of the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. File name instarchbx208im 031. Source ID. 44357.

See photo on University of Oxford HEIR database

HGW04 Pompeii. May 2006.

Rear of HGW04 looking south-east across enclosure separating HGW04 and HGW03, with HGW04a on right.

HGW04 Pompeii. Schola Tomb of Mamia, wall painting of mask.

Found 2nd July 1763 on the north wall of the enclosure separating HGW04 from HGW04a. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9808.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p. 44).

HGW04 Pompeii. Schola Tomb of Mamia, wall painting of mask.

Found 2nd July 1763 on the north wall of the enclosure separating HGW04 from HGW04a. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9854.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p. 44).

HGW04 Pompeii. Schola Tomb of Mamia, wall painting of mask.

Found 2nd July 1763 on the north wall of the enclosure separating HGW04 from HGW04a. 

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 9853.

See Pagano, M. and Prisciandaro, R., 2006. Studio sulle provenienze degli oggetti rinvenuti negli scavi borbonici del regno di Napoli. Naples: Nicola Longobardi. (p. 44).

According to Allroggen-Bedel, all of the above three paintings were found in the same room in VI.17.9-10.

See Allroggen-Bedel A, Die malereien aus dem Haus Insula Occidentalis 10, In Cronache Pompeiane, II, 1976 (p. 147-8).

HGW04 Pompeii. Schola Tomb of Mamia. Found 2nd July 1763, wall painting of tiger or panther.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8650.

HGW04 Pompeii. Schola Tomb of Mamia. Found 2nd July 1763, wall painting of tiger or panther.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum. Inventory number 8649.

HGW04 Pompeii. 1809-11. Schola tomb of Mamia, drawing by Mazois.

According to Mazois –

“The drawing offers the sight of the tomb of Mamia on the side of the sepulcretum; one can notice on the right, in the wall which separates this place from the street, several heads of animals encrusted, and which seem intentionally put to form a manner of decoration rather suitable at a place devoted to the burials. In the surroundings were several vault openings. It was impossible for me to find them”

See Mazois, F., 1812. Les Ruines de Pompei: Première Partie. Paris: Didot Frères, (p. 28, Pl. X).

HGW04 Pompeii. 1809-11. Schola tomb of Mamia, a reconstruction by Mazois.

According to Mazois there were several terracotta masks, similar to the one drawn, “but all have been broken by the curious ones”.

See Mazois, F., 1812. Les Ruines de Pompei: Premiere Partie. Paris: Didot Frères, (p.28, Pl. IX).

HGW01-4 Pompeii. Woodcut by Samuel Palmer, looking along the tombs towards the Herculaneum Gate

See Dickens C., 1846. Pictures from Italy. Whitefriars, London: Bradbury and Evans.

HGW04 Pompeii. 1804 drawing of the remains outside the Herculaneum Gate.

See Piranesi, F, 1804. Antiquités de la Grande Grèce : Tome I. Paris : Piranesi and Le Blanc, (pl. 4).

HGW04 Pompeii. 1793 Painting by Hackert showing the schola on the right.

HGW04 Pompeii. 1899 photograph showing schola on right.

See Mau, A., 1899, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. Mass. U.S.A: Norwood Press, p. 401, fig. 226.