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Tomb 24: seen from the Via Severiana. On the right tomb 25 and the passageway.

Tomb 24 is located on the left side of the block formed by tombs 22-24. Between the right wall of tomb 24 and the left wall of tomb 25 is a passageway to the tombs behind.
The burial chamber was arranged for inhumation. The arcosolia are still containing traces of decoration. The paintings from the lower niche in the back wall, hunting scenes, are stored in the museum of Ostia (inv. nrs. 10112a and b). We see how the hunter with his dogs is driving wild animals to a hunting net. Another dog, with stretched neck, is running after a rushing deer. Between his legs we see a third dog with a hare in his mouth.
A second arcosolium represents a lion hunt. The lion is in the centre. To the right are two hunters holding round shields. To the left an animal is fleeing, perhaps a deer.
Here too we can speak of a Dionysian scene (see also tomb 26 and 34).
The upper part of tomb 24 is missing and formae have been found beneath the floor. The tomb dates from 200-210 AD.

Tomb 24: hunting scene with dogs (photo ICCD-E041184))

Tomb 24: hunting scene with lion (ICCD E040755)

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).