Tomb 9
Tomb 9 shares the southern wall with tomb 8 and the north wall, for a small part, with tomb 10. The latter tomb lies slightly back from the Via Severiana.
The entrance of this tomb lies also above street level.
The burial chamber has the same plan as all the other tombs in this necropolis. Along the walls are large niches for inhumation. The floor too was used for burials.
The original floor has been lost. However, pilot excavations proved the existence of individual burial places beneath tomb 9.
At the back of the burial chamber a podium has been built, probably for sarcophagi.
- 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 Baldassare, Irene Bragantini, Chiara Morselli and Franc Taglietti - Necropoli di Porto, Isola Sacra (Roma 1996).
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