Tomb 67Isola Sacra Menu

tombe64 01 — Tomb 67: seen from the south and leaning against tomb 76.
In the background from left to right: tomb 60, 67a, 59, 58 and 57.

map tombe 66 Tomb 67 was originally a very small grave built around 120 AD and used only for urns. It had been built against the back wall of tomb 76 and was oriented to the south.

Around the middle of the second century AD tomb 67 became part of a bigger tomb.
This new tomb was, according to the inscription on the southern wall, built for Didia Helpis and for her freed slaves, and the heirs:

D(is) M(anibus)

DIDIAE

HELPIDIS

ET LIBERTIS LIBER

TAB(usque) POSTERISQ(ue)

EORVM

The entrance, once below the inscription, was later moved to the north side.

In front of the right wall of the burial chamber, a place for inhumation was created. Calza called this tomb interesting because of the two layers of plaster: "The second layer has a crude decoration of geometrical symbols. White and yellow areas on a red background.
A circle in the vault holds a Medusa head." Unfortunately the head is not visible anymore.
The new construction of the tomb dates back to the middle of the second century AD.

Tomb 67: in front the original grave., now part of a bigger tomb with the new northern entrance.

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).