Description: Basic Description: The incomplete polygon feature class Tombs (filename- PBMP_TMB_City_Poly_001) represents 123 tombs in the excavated areas outside the city, following the nomenclature of the catalog of Campbell, V. 2015. The Tombs of Pompeii. Organization, Space, and Society. New York: Routledge. This file is current under construction and should be used for reference purposes only.
Data History: The attribute data for these features were derived from the catalog in Campbell 2015 (Appendix I, in The Tombs of Pompeii. Organization, Space, and Society. New York: Routledge) and digitized in CAD by students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Information on each tomb were joined to the spatial representations, including concordance information, tomb type, building materials, chronology, and a summary of the basis for that chronology. Spatial data in this layer are based on a CAD file provided by the Soprintendenza di Pompei to Eric Poehler in 2003. The CAD file was created by digitizing the RICA Maps of Pompeii, 1984, supported by World Monuments Watch and funded by American Express. The RICA MAPs were drawn in part from aerial images taken at 820m and supplemented by on the ground survey. Inconsistencies among the features of this layer with satellite imagery or other maps of Pompeii may be the result of errors in the rectification of the original aerial images and differences projected between coordinate systems (PBMP data are in the Monte_Mario_Italy_2 projected coordinate system). On the creation of the RICA Maps, see Van der Poel, H. B., Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, vol. IIIA. Austin, TX, 1986, XI-XIX.
Symbologies: This feature class is symbolized as a solid pink (Ginger pink) polygon, with 40% display transparency, and scale visibility set to not above 1:10,000.
Credits: This data was produced by Eric Poehler for the Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project after original CAD data provided by the Soprintendenza di Pompei.