Tomb 36Isola Sacra Menu

Along the Via Severiana from left to right: tomb 34, tomb 35 and 36, the passage to the row of graves behind and tomb 37.

 

map tombe 35 36Tombs 35 and 36 were built as one grave with two burial chambers, each with its own entrance, facing the Via Severiana.
Tomb 35 borders on the south to tomb 34. Tomb 36 is detached on three sides and shares with tomb 37 s passage to the graves behind.
Both graves are arranged for inhumation only.
Also beneath the floor burial places were located. The walls have double rows of arcosolia.
Between the rubbish of the collapsed walls marble fragments have been found during the excavations. This points to sarcophagi or to arcosolia with marble covers.
The floor had a black-and-white mosaic. In tomb 35 are still some traces of painted decorations with flowers in the niches.
The tombs date from a rather late period (first half of the third century AD).

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Tomb 36: the burial chamber.

 

 

 

  • 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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