Tomb 65Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 65 is a tomb "a cassone" and measures 1.20 x 0.70 metres. The little grave lies to the south-east of tomb 64. On tomb 65 was a marble plate with the following Greek inscription:

 According to this inscription, Achilles built the grave for his son, Cyrillus Achilles, who passed away at the age of eleven years, five months and nine days. Tomb 65 is not visible anymore.

• 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).