Tomb 90Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 90, like tomb 88 originally detached, was during the construction of the burial chamber immediately supplied with an enclosure. The entrance of the enclosure was on the north side. The façade was facing the Via Severiana. In front of the façade was a large U-shaped bench, similar to the benches of a triclinium.
The façade has an aedicula in the middle with two columns supporting a semicircular tympanum. Between those columns we can see the place where once an inscription was attached.

The inscription above the entrance of the burial chamber is still in place. A marble slab of 32 x 50 cms contains the following text:

 

D(is) M(anibus)
P(ubli) GABINI ANNIANI
P(ublius) GABINIVS LONGINVS
ET ANNIA EPICTESIS
FECERVNT FILIO PIISSIMO
VIXIT ANNIS XVI

Publius Gabinius Longinus and Annia Epictesis have built this monument for Publius Gabinius Annianus, their most pious son, who lived sixteen years.

The deceased is also commemorated in the burial chamber by his sister. On a small marble memorial tablet (now in the Ostian depot) she wrote:

D(is) M(anibus)
P(ubli) GABINI
ANNIANI
ANNI
IONICE
FRATRI
KARISSIMO

Annia Ionice for Publius Gabinius Annianus, her dearest brother.

 

• 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).
  
  
• Notes
• 1: The two Antonii are with great certainty the children mentioned in the inscription of tomb 88. The deceased father was called M. Antonius Hermes, the mother Iulia Quinta. One of the two has been named Iulianus after his mother Iulia. The Gabinii are heirs (probably sons) of the one who is burried in tomb 90, P. Gabinius Longinus: - Thylander: Inscriptions du port d'Ostie
• 2:Ears of grain. Photo: ICCD E041119.