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This page is somewhat messy, I am currently treating the sand box as a public notebook/draft page/workcited page. This is where I will be adding all further notes I take, and for peer editing, I just ask for ideas on what areas to flesh out more and, if there are grammatical, syntactical, or structural errors please let me know. Any other feedback would be appreciated.

Overview
In some way or another I have changed just about every section of the article, be that by changing the wording, adding a citation, or adding content to it. Each piece of information I have added has been the result of either hours of research at the library or getting lucky a few times and being able to find the information I was looking for in a timely manner. From reading these books (listed at the bottom), I have come across conflicting theories on a few topics. One example is whether Marcus Numistrius Fronto was Eumachia's son or her husband. In this case I mentioned the debate, however refer to Fronto as her husband because I found that argument being more compelling. The building is dedicated to a dead relative before Eumachia's death. The argument that her husband is more likely to have died before her than her son holds more water in my opinion the her son dying first. Conflicts such as these will exist in any historical reading with multiple sources.

Most substantial edits (mostly or wholly rewritten or re-researched by me)

 * Eumachia, the daughter of Lucius or Eumachius, is reported to have obtained her great wealth in her own right as a very successful matron of the fuller's guild. The Fullers were an economically significant guild in Pompeii which consisted of dyers and clothing-makers.The Guild's prominence was due to the wool trade's significance to Pompeii .Along with her personal success she inherited a significant fortune from her father, a brick manufacturer of humble beginnings, this including several interests in the foreign trade and mercantile industry of Pompeii. She sought a higher social status than the merchant one she had been born to by marrying Marcus Numistrius Fronto of the Numistrii, a memeber of one of the older and more prominent families of Pompeii.


 * The building of Eumahcia, a the largest building near the forum of Pompeii located just to the east, is commonly broken down into three parts,the chalcidicum, the porticus, and the crypta. The chalcidicum encompasses the front of the building and is an important part of the continuous portico running along the east of the forum. The porticus is a four sided colonnade surrounding a large court yard. Finally the crypta is a large corridor behind the porticus on the north east and south sides, seperated from the porticus by a single wall that has windows that were probably once shuttered, in earlier descriptions there were even cisterns, vats, basins, and stone tables in the courtyard. In the center of the court yard, that is said to have been paved of stone slabs, there is a stone block with an iron ring that covered an underground cistern. The dating for the building is relatively vague, coming in somewhere between 9 BC and 22 BC. A Marcus Numistrius Fronto had a post-mortem inscription dedicated to him on the building, he held the office of duumvir in 3 AD, for this reason it is believed that he was more likely to have been Eumachia's husband rather than her son . In a niche toward the back of the building there is a idealized statue of Eumachia dressed in a tunic, stola, and cloak.

The actual purpose of the building is unknown, with some of the likely theories in no meaningful order, being:

1. A market place for goods, especially those sold by the fullers guild which Eumachia was the matron of.

2. A headquarters for the fullers guild, where they washed, stretched and dyed wool. With the actual Fulling done off site because of the smell.

3. A headquarters for the fullers guild, where they did everything involved with the fulling process, with the idea that smells were of little concern in an ancient city before the invention of modern sewage.

The building as a whole is dedicated to Augustian Concord and Piety, thought to be in the image if Livia. In front of the building there are bases of what were once statues of Romulus and Aeneas. Paintings of the street of Abundance, where the building is located, show Aeneas to be in leading his family from Troy and Romulus holding a Spolia opima.


 * The presumed use of this building was to serve as the headquarters for the fullers’ guild, although its exact use is uncertain. She dedicated this building, known as the Building of Eumachia or Basilica of Eumachia, to Concordia Augusta and to Pietas. In addition, statues of Tiberius, the emperor during her life, and Livia, his mother and Auguetus's wife, were found on this inside, along with inscriptions on the outside of the building which included dedications to them.

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The presumed use of this building was to serve as the headquarters for the fullers’ guild, although its exact use is uncertain. She dedicated this building, known as the Building of Eumachia or Basilica of Eumachia, to Concordia Augusta and to Pietas. In addition, statues of Tiberius, the emperor during her life, and Livia, his mother and Auguetus's wife, were found on this inside, along with inscriptions on the outside of the building which included dedications to them.

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"In response to her generosity, and symbolic of her power and social status, the fullers built a statue depicting Eumachia in the veiled form of a priestess. They inscribed into its foundation a dedication. The rough translation of this inscription is: "to Eumachia, daughter of Lucius, public priestess of Pompeian Venus, from the fullers." See Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: "EVMACHIAE L F SACERD PVBL FVLLONES,” ."

- all from the statue section

Tomb questions
Incorporate to the statue section or make it its own section?

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Unformatted links that are potentially sources
http://bora.uib.no/bitstream/handle/1956/12710/144682466.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (masters thesis paper)

Formatted-ish Bibliography
-The Building of Eumachia: A Reconsideration

-The Porticus of Eumachia in the Forum of Pompeii

- Problems of Chronology, Decoration, and Urban Design in the Forum at Pompeii

- companion to women in the ancient world

-The world of Pompeii

- The wool trade of ancient pompeii

-Pompeii : public and private life / Paul Zanker