Tomb 17
Tomb 17, from the time of Antoninus Pius, consists of a burial chamber on three sides detached and an entrance opening on the Via Severiana. The southern wall is bounded by the enclosure of tomb 16.
The tomb is preserved to a height of less than one metre. On the other hand, a piece of the floor has been preserved.
The tomb was only meant for inhumation and had on each wall, with the exception of the entrance wall, a double row of arcosolia.
In the north-east corner, to the right of the entrance, are four steps of a staircase which led to an upper floor (probably a solarium). Beneath the floor four formae were brought to light.
The burial chamber measures 4,90 x 3,80 m.
Tomb 17 seen from the Via Severiana. On the left side the entrance of tomb 16.
- 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).
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