Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 219
ound fome trifling remainsof painting in them; but could feenone of the vafes that contained theaflaes of the dead. Though there isa great number of thefe tombs com-municating one with the other,I thought it w^ould be fufficient todehneate a couple, which are builtof brick laid in the manner wehave… … [ 139 ] O F AGR IPP IN A^s TOMB. UPON the road that leads from Platethe tombs I have mentioned/to Baia3, we find a vault of a femi-circular arch detached, which ourcondudors affure us is the tomb ofAgrippina, that unfortunate motherof Nero. This vault, which is bu-ried in the earth up to the…
