Tomb 12Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 12 is a grave from an earlier period than tomb 11 (1st decade of the 3th century). The tomb is built in an open space between tomb 13, tomb 14 and the Via Severiana.
Tomb 12 lies about 50 cms above street level and has its entrance oriented to the north, thus away from the street.

Pilot excavations showed that the open space in front of tomb 12 had already been used in earlier times. Several types of small tombs have been found.

We enter the tomb, which by the way was built for inhumation only, via three steps of travertine. In the walls were two rows of arcosolia, and beneath the floor another 12 formae.

 

 

• 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 Baldassare, Irene Bragantini, Chiara Morselli and Franc Taglietti - Necropoli di Porto, Isola Sacra (Roma 1996).