Tomb 32

Tomb 32 was built between tombs 30 and 31 and the Via Severiana, and lies very close against the road. The grave dates from the end of the second or beginning of the third century AD. The right wall borders tomb 33.
Only the lower part of this tomb remains. The architrave above the entrance has disappeared.
The burial chamber was used only for inhumation, with arcosolia alongside three walls. In each arcosolium three bodies could be buried. Beneath the floor, which consisted of removable marble plates, formae with place for three bodies each have been found.
Unfortunately only a Few traces of the decoration have remained.


- 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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