Tomb 70
Tomb 70 is a tomb "a cassone". The grave lies behind tomb 88.
The little grave had a marble plate of 24 x 32 centimetres with the following inscription:
D(is) M(anibus) SAC(rum)
SVALLIAE RHEMBA
DI INNOCENTI
VIXIT A(nnis) II M(ensibus) V D(iebus) XXIII
HOR(is) IIX L(ucius) SVALLIVS
LUPIO PARENS
The grave was meant for Suallia Rhembas, the innocent, who died at the age of two years, five months, twenty-three days and eight hours. The grave was built by her father, Lucius Suallius Lupio.
Tomb 70, covered with earth again, dates from the time of Trajan or Hadrian.
The swelling in the ground, between yhese two tombs, is tomb 70.
- 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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