Tomb 44Isola Sacra Menu

The left wall of tomb 44 borders on tomb 43 and the back wall on tomb 45.
Tomb 44 is a small grave with its entrance facing the Via Severiana. The grave, badly preserved, was probably built for inhumation only. Only one row of arcosolia, in the lower part of the wall, has survived.
Beneath the floor, probably made of marble, four formae have been brought to light. The decoration, if there was any, has disappeared.
Tomb 44 lies above the present street level and dates from the beginning of the third century AD.

 

 

 

• 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).