Tomb 61
Between tomb 60, 61 and 62 several amphorae above earth graves.
Tomb 61 is a tomb "a cassone" and belongs, like tomb 60, to the westernmost graves in the necropolis. The front is turned towards the Via Severiana and had the following inscription:
DIS MANIBVS
ONESIMO
M(arcus) ORBIVS SCAPVLA
EVOC(atus) AVG(usti)
OPTIMO SERVO
FECIT
The grave was built by Marcus Orbius Scapula, re-enlisted veteran of the emperor, for Onesimus, his excellent slave.
Today the inscription is not in situ 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).
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