The Necropolis of Stabia Gate extended outside the gate of the same name, along one of the main roads leading out of southern Pompeii. As in the Roman city's other necropoleis, funerary monuments stood beside the road, clearly visible to anyone entering or leaving the city.
Among the most important burials are monuments belonging to prominent members of Pompeian society. Archaeological research has identified, among others, the tombs of Marcus Tullius and Marcus Alleius Minius, built in monumental forms widely used by the city's elite.
More recent excavations have greatly increased the area's significance. In 2017, a large marble funerary monument was discovered, bearing a very long inscription that records important episodes in the deceased's public life. He can probably be identified as Gnaeus Alleius Nigidius Maius, one of the best-known figures in first-century AD Pompeii.
Investigations continue today, allowing researchers to study not only the monuments but also funerary rituals, cremations and the organisation of the spaces immediately outside the city walls.
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