Tomb 3
Tomb 3 has also been preserved badly. The grave dates from the latest period of the necropolis. The entrance of this grave is, like tomb 2, turned towards the main street.
This is one of the southernmost tombs and originally built for inhumation. The floor has disappeared and we can see the burial places (called formae) beneath.
This tomb had a double row of arcosolia alongside the side walls..
- 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).
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