Tomb 49Isola Sacra Menu

Of tomb 49 only the facade is visible. The small grave lies hidden to the north-west of tomb 47. It was partly covered by newer graves which are also not visible anymore. This tomb has been numbered probably because of the existence of a marble slab with the following inscription in small characters:

DIIS MANIBVS
TI(berius) CLAVDIVS AVG(usti) LIB(ertus) EVMENES
SIBI ET CLAVDIAE PHOEBE ET
FADIAE TETHIDI F(iliabus) ET CLAVDIO
PHOEBO F(ilio) ET IVLIAE HEVRESI
CONIVGI POSTERISQVE EIVS

Tiberius Claudius Eumenes, freedman of the emperor (has erected this monument) for himself and for Claudia Phoebe and Fadia Tethis, his daughters, and Claudius Phoebus, his son, and Iulia Heuresis, his wife, and their children.

Beneath the floor of this tomb six urns have been found with pieces of bones.
Tomb 49 dates from the time of Trajan.

• 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).