Tomb 83
Like the previous tomb, tomb 83 runs parallel with the Via Severiana. The semicircular tomb "a cassone" has a large, square niche facing north. An inscription on a marble slab of 26 x 43 cm attached to the long side says:
D(is) M(anibus)
SALLVSTIAE ROMANAE
L(ucius) SALLVSTIVS IANVARIVS
FECIT SORORI PIENTISSIMAE
QVAE VIXIT ANNIS XXI
Lucius Sallustius Ianuarius has made this monument for his very pious sister Sallustia Romana, who passed away at the age of 21.
The precise date of this tomb is given by a brickstamp from the last years of the emperor Hadrian, 135-138 AD.
- 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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