Tomb 14Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 14 is bounde on the right side by tomb 13 and doesn't, like this tomb, look out over the Via Severiana any more since the erection of tomb 12.
Also here, the stone bivlinium in front of the tomb has disappeared. We can still see the moulding that has left.
Above the entrance you can recognize the location where once an inscription was attached. Unfortunately this inscription hasn't been found.

Tomb 14: on the left side the entrance wall of tomb 12 and on
the right bottom a part of the bilclinium of tomb 15.

Tomb 14 featured both the cremation and inhumation rite.
The walls of thr burial chamber have arcosolia in the lower part and small niches for urns around a large central niche in the upper part.
Of the original drcorations little has left. We still find traces in the large niche on the left wall and in the small niches¹.
In later time, when inhumation became common, several small niches in the right and backwall had to make room for the burial of bodies.

Tomb 14: one of the smaller niches with flower decoration.

Tomb 14: the left wall. On the right side the reorganisation of the backwall.

Tomb 14: The right and the backwall. We clearly see the reorganisation for inhumation in later time.

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 Baldassare, Irene Bragantini, Chiara Morselli and Franc Taglietti - Necropoli di Porto, Isola Sacra (Roma 1996).
Notes
1:Professor Calza mentioned in his excavation report a peacock with open fan-tail. This painting can't be seen anymore.