Tomb 60Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 60 is one of the most western tombs of the necropolis. The grave has survived to a height of one metre and has its entrance on the east side, thus towards the Via Severiana.
From the entrance we have a view on the "Field of the Poor".
The burial chamber, originally used for cremation burials only, measures 4,57 x 3,50 metres. Under the small niches one can still see the marble tablets for the names of the deceased.
These names were written with paint and didn't survive.
During a second period of use a wall of rough stones was placed alongside the back wall. It is not clear whether there are burial places below the now disappeared floor.
In this tomb a small marble altar has been found with the following insription:

To the divine Manes of Titus Flavius Nearchus.

 In front of tomb 60, in the "Field of the Poor", a travertine slab has been found with the following inscription:

DIS MANIBVS
FILIAE PIISSIMAE
POMPONIAE FELICI POMPONIA OPTATA
ET M(arcus) CAECILIVS EVO
DVS PATER FECE(runt)
VIXIT ANNIS III ME
NSIBVS VIII DIEBVS III

The inscription says that (this tomb) has been made by Pomponia Optata and Marcus Caecilius Euhodus, her father, for their very pious daughter Pomponia Felix, who has lived for three years, eight months and three days. The inscription dates back to the time of Hadrian.

• 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).