Tomb 48
Tomb 48 was lying on one line with tomb 47. The grave belonged to the northern group of tombs which are not visible anymore.
Guido Calza designated the grave as a "tomba a cassone". On the front was the following inscription on a marble slab (22 x 27 x 5,5 cm):
D(is) M(anibus)
RVTILIAE PSYCHENI
MALCHION FECIT
The inscription says that a certain Malchion built this grave for Rutilia Psyche.
The probable date of tomb 48 is the second century 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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