VIII.7.33 Pompeii Foro Triangolare. Schola con orologio solare.

Triangular Forum. Semi-circular stone schola bench seat with sundial.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii. December 2005. Triangular Forum most westerly point near schola.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii. July 2021. Looking west towards semi-circular stone bench or schola.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii. July 2021.

Looking east towards semi-circular stone bench or schola with lions’ feet next to the south-west corner of the temple.

Foto Annette Haug, ERC Grant 681269 DÉCOR.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii. 2015/2016.

Semi-circular stone bench or schola with lions’ feet next to the south-west corner of the temple. Photo courtesy of Giuseppe Ciaramella.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. May 2010.

Semi-circular stone bench or schola with lions’ feet next to the south-west corner of the temple. Photo courtesy of Rick Bauer.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005.

Semi-circular stone bench or schola with lions’ feet next to the south-west corner of the temple.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Semi-circular stone schola bench with sundial.

According to Mau this seat was set up to enjoy the uninterrupted views over the plain, to the mountains and across the bay.

On the back of the schola seat was a sundial with an inscription.

Now in Naples Archaeological Museum.  Inventory number 3832.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. 11th May 1765. Semi-circular stone schola bench with sundial.

PAH I, 1, p. 169, 11th May 1765, records this inscription found in the back of the seat:

Fiorelli in Descrizione records a sundial with a tablet behind containing an inscription

L  SEPVNIVS  L  F  SANDILIANVS

M  HERENNIVS  A  F  EPIDIANVS

DVO  VIR  I  D  SCOL  ET  HOROL

D  S  P  F  C

See Pappalardo, U., 2001. La Descrizione di Pompei per Giuseppe Fiorelli (1875). Napoli: Massa Editore. (p. 136, [365])

The Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss/Slaby (See www.manfredclauss.de) records

L(ucius) Sepunius L(uci) f(ilius) Sandilianus

M(arcus) Herennius A(uli) f(ilius) Epidianus

duovir(i) i(ure) d(icundo) scol(a) et horol(ogium)

d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(aciendum) c(uraverunt)      [CIL X 831]

Mau translates this as

'Lucius Sepunius Sandilianus the son of Lucius, and Marcus Herennius Epidianus the son of Aulus, duumvirs with judiciary authority, caused the seat and sundial to be made at their own expense.'

The same two duumvirs were also responsible for the sundial in the court of the Temple of Apollo.

See Mau, A., 1907, translated by Kelsey F. W. Pompeii: Its Life and Art. New York: Macmillan. (p. 135-6).

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. West end of semi-circular stone bench with remaining lion’s foot.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. East end of semi-circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Back of semi-circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Front west end of semi-circular stone bench.

VIII.7.33 Pompeii Triangular Forum. December 2005. Front east end of semi-circular stone bench. The lion’s foot is missing.

Outside the Pompeii city walls, looking at the Triangular Forum. 1890 painting showing the schola.

See Von Duhn F., 1890. Der Griechische Tempel in Pompeji, Heidelberg: Carl Winters Univ., Taf. 1.