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Tomb B has a door towards the street. The travertine door jambs and architrave are still in place.
Above the entrance, surrounded by a beautiful cornice, a marble slab of 125 x 60 cm has been found, with the following inscription:

SCANTIA C(ai) F(ilia) SILVINA
FECIT SIBI ET L(ucio) SCANTIO L(uci) FIL(io) EPARCHICO
FILIO SVO ET SVLPICIAE M(arci) F(iliae) IVLITTAE
NEPOTI SVAE ET LIBERTIS SVIS
LIBERTABVSQVE POSTERISQVE
EORVM H(oc) M(onumentum) H(eredem) E(xterum) N(on) S(equetur)
IN FRONTE PED(es) XII IN AGRO PED(es) XIII 

This tomb was built by Scantia Silvina, daughter of Caius. It was meant for herself and for Lucius Scantius Eparchicus, son of Lucius, her son, and for Sulpicia Iulitta, daughter of Marcus, her granddaughter, and for her freed slaves, and the descendants. The tomb could not be inherited by strangers. The measurements were twelve feet in front and thirteen at the back.

The owners of tomb B were related to the owners of tomb 55. Tomb 55 was built by a certain Scantia Salvina, the sister of Scantia Silvina, and the mother of Sulpicia Iulitta.
The inscription above the entrance of tomb B is flanked by two small windows. Inside the tomb we find three arcosolia, one in the back wall and one in each side wall. Above each arcosolium are five niches: one large central niche with a shell of stucco in top, flanked by four smaller niches. Next to the entrance are two niches, each for one urn. Above the entrace is another small niche.
In the corners we can still see the buttresses of the barrel vault.

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• Sources
• Russel Meigs - Roman Ostia, At the Clarendon Press 1973
• Guido Calza - Necropoli nell'Isola Sacra'(1940)
• Dr. Jan Theo Bakker.