Tomb 62Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 62 is a tomb "a cassone" turned to the main street, the Via Severiana.
The little grave has an inscription, written in irregular characters, on a marble slab of 30 x 38 cm. Only a part of the slab (30 x 16 cm) has been used.

D(is) M(anibus)
L(uci) SITTI CRESCENTIS
P(ublius) BETILIENVS
SYNEGDEMVS
AMICO MERENTI

According to this inscription, the tomb was built by Publius Betilienus Synegdemus, for his deserving friend Lucius Sittius Crescens. The donor of tomb 62 himself is buried in tomb 64.

• 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).