Tomb 66
Tomb 66 is a tomb "a cassone". The little grave has been built against the back wall of tomb 78.
On the side turned towards the sea was a marble slab of 18 x 27 centimetres with the following inscription, written with irregular characters:
D(is) M(anibus)
CAECILIA MAXIMA
SOCRATE FILIO ET
NEPOTI FECIT EX
SVBSTANTIA AVRE
LIAES
The text says that Caecilia Maxima had built the tomb for Socrates, son and grandson, paid from the fortune of Aurelia.
Probably Socrates was the son of Caecilia Maxima and the grandson of Aurelia.
Tomb 66 dates back to the time of Hadrian or Antoninus Pius.
- 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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