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Tomb 26: the entrance seen from the Via Severiana. 

map tombe 27 28Tomb 27 belongs to the group formed by tombs 25 till 28. The grave was built exclusively for inhumation and dates from the same period as the others of this block (end of the second - beginning of the third century AD).
Besides a double row of arcosolia along the walls there were formae under the floor.

 

 

 

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Tomb 27: the burial chamber.

 

 

  • Sources
  • Russel Meigs - Roman Ostia, At the Clarendon Press 1973
  • Guido Calza - Necropoli nell'Isola Sacra'(1940)
  • Dr. Jan Theo Bakker.
  • Hilding Thylander - Inscriptions du port d'Ostie (Lund C W K Gleerup 1952).
  • Ida Baldassarre, Irene Bragantini, Chiara Morselli and Franc Taglietti - Necropoli di Porto, Isola Sacra (Roma 1996).

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