Pompeii, the Herculaneum Gate Cemetery

Outside Pompeii's north-west (Herculaneum Gate) is a cemetery. Tombs line the street and they include some important ones such as the freedwoman Naevoleia Tyche, determined to show how successful she and her freedman husband Munatius Faustus, had been in life. They also include the tomb of Aulus Umbricius Scaurus, the young magistrate commemorated by his father, the owner of Pompeii's premier fish-sauce (garum) business. Both are prescribed content for the UK-based OCR examination board's AS paper in Classical Civilisation (Cities of Roman Italy - CC6).