TUMULUS IULIAE
the tomb of Julia, daughter of Caesar and wife of
Pompeius, in the campus Martius (Liv. Epit. 106; Plut. Pomp. 53,
Caesar 23; Cass.
Dio xxxix. 64). The funeral pyre of Caesar was erected
near this tumulus (Suet. Caes. 84), and it was in this tomb that he himself
was probably buried (Cass.
Dio xliv. 51; HJ 572-573; Hirschfeld,
in Berl. Sitz.
Ber. 1886, 1150=Kleine Schriften, 451). It is possible
also that it is the same tomb referred to in Livy (Epit. 140) as the burial
place of Drusus in C. Iulii tumulo, who, however, according to better
authorities, was buried in the MAUSOLEUM AUGUSTI (q.v.). In other
words it was the tomb of the gens Iulia. On the other hand, the tumulus
Iuliorum, in which Poppaea's body was placed (Tac.
Ann. xvi. 6) is generally
thought to be the Mausoleum Augusti. It is possible that this tomb is
indicated by the letters vLI on fragment 72 of the Marble Plan. If so,
its location just east of the thermae Agrippae, between it and the Villa
Publica, and close to the
SEPULCRUM AGRIPPAE (q.v.), west of the Via
del Gesu, would be very probable (HJ 496, 572;
Mitt. 1903, 48-54).
