bavarikon4UDescription
From time to time, pictorial representations on gravestones provide us with an insight into the everyday life of the provincial population. An example of this is the inscription block of a pillar tomb from Augsburg, whose relief-decorated adjacent sides allude to the subject of the wine trade. The left side shows a sales scene. A man standing behind a high counter is pouring wine into a measuring jug. The latter is placed on a kind of funnel, the tip of which presumably ends under the table in an arched niche. A considerably smaller figure, dressed in a hooded cloak, stands in front of the counter, and holds a jug under one of the two niches below the table to catch the forthcoming wine. This scene appears in a very similar form on several occasions in the Dijon region. Particularly with respect to scenic representations, clear parallels can be drawn for Augsburg with the funerary monuments of the Roman province of Gallia Belgica.
The right-side page depicts a payment scene: the man on the left is glancing at an account board, the man sitting on the right has a sack on his legs and seems to be putting money on the table with his right hand, with some coins already spread out on it. The woman in the background - as her fingers reveal - is counting along.
Inscription
POMPEIANIVS
SILVINVS VIVVS
FECIT SIBI ET
POMP(eianio) VICTORI
FRATRI PIISSIMO
QVI VIXIT ANNIS XXX