Tomb 68
Tomb 68: The first tomb on the right side is tomb 85 seen from the north.
Tomb 68, also a tomb "a cassone", lies to the north-west of tomb 85. The small grave, not visible today, has a triangular front plate of 25 x 32 centimetres with the following inscription:
| D(is) M(anibus) L(ucius) AEMILIVS DONATVS ET AEMI(li)A MARIA L(ucio) AEMILIO DONATO PATRI PIENTISSIMO FECERVNT |
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According to this inscription from the time of Hadrian, the tomb was built by Lucius Aemilius Donatus and Aemilia Maria for their very pious father, Lucius Aemilius Donatus.
- 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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