Tomb 52
On the right side the back-wall of tomb 46.
Tomb 52 is, just like 51bis, a semicircular tomb "a cassone" and lies on one line with tomb 53. The grave is placed diagonally on tomb 51bis and runs almost parallel with the back wall of tomb 46. Because the short side of this grave is turned towards the Via Severiana we find the inscription on that side.
The inscription, placed on a marble slab of 25 x 29 cm, says:
M(arco) IVLIO MERCV
RIO IVLIA SALO
CONIVGI PIEN
TISSIMO
According to the text, the grave was erected by Iulia Salo for Marcus Iulius Mercurius, her very devout husband.
Tomb 52 dates from the time of Hadrian.
- 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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