A brilliant military career, then the "buen retiro" in Pompeii, the small town in Campania, famous for its beautiful landscape and views of the Gulf of Naples, which also attracted figures such as Cicero and Agrippa. This is what emerges from the inscription on a tomb found during work on the construction of a cavity, functional to restore the underground rooms of the San Paolino building, the new headquarters of the Pompeii Archaeological Park library, from humidity. The discovery was announced yesterday in the E-Journal of the Pompeii Excavations, the online magazine about new discoveries and research being conducted at the archaeological site. Contributors to the reading and interpretation of the inscription were Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University Federico II of Naples, and Alberto Dalla Rosa, Full Professor of Roman History at Université Bordeaux Montaigne. The excavation for the creation of the cavity had just touched the two ends of the tomb, which is in the shape of a semicircle and can be traced back to a typology well known in Pompeii: these are the so-called "schola" tombs, which consist of a hemicycle bench, made of tufa, decorated at the ends with lion's paws.
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