Tomb 76Isola Sacra Menu

tombe74 02 — The entrances of tomb 75 (right) and tomb 76 (left) seen through the passageway to the Via Severiana.
In front of the two tombs are the little tombs 72 A and 74.

Above the entrance of the enclosure of tomb 76 we find the inscription that mentions the dividing of the original tomb:

Tomb 76: the inscription mentions the division.

D(is) M(anibus)
M(arcus) ANTONIVS AGATHIAS
AEDICVLAM PVRAM EX SEPVLCHRO
M(arci) COCCEI DAPHNI CVIVS HERES EST
FACTA DIVISIONE INTER SE ET COHER(e)DES SVOS
ADIECTO DE SVO PARIETE MEDIO ET OSTIO LIBERO
FACTO FECIT SIBI ET
LIBERTIS LIBERTABVSQVE POSTERISQVE EORVM

The inscription, on a marble slab of 39 x 67 cms, says that Marcus Antonius Agathias has built a tomb inside the tomb of Marcus Cocceius Daphnus, of which he is an heir. After the division among his fellow-heirs has been made, a wall shall be erected and a new entrance shall be placed, The grave will be used for himself, for his freed slaves, and for the descendants.

Tomb 76: the enclosure seen towards the entrance. Through the door we see tomb 74.

Above the entrance of the burial chamber of tomb 76 is an inscription on a marble slab of 32 x 54 cms. Only the right side of the plate was used, the left side is empty:

Tomb 76: inscription above the entrance of the burial chamber.

D(is) M(anibus)
M(arcus) ANTONIVS
PIVS AEMILIAE
MAIORICE ET
COMINIO SILVA
NO CONCESSV IN T
RANTIB(us) PARTE DEXT(ra)
LIB(ertis) LIBER(tabusque) POS(terisque) EOR(um)

In this inscription Marcus Antonius Pius allows Aemilia Maiorica and Cominius Silvanus to be burried on the right side for those entering, together with their freed slaves and the descendants.

Tomb 76: seen from the entrance of the enclosure.

Tomb 76: a corner of 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).