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Tomb 40 has an L-shaped burial chamber and borders on the left side upon the access alley to tomb 39. Why this grave has this shape is uncertain. The façade lies close against the Via Severiana. The threshold of the entrance is longer than the entrance itself and lies partly under the wall. The threshold was probably placed here during a later use of the grave. In the burial chamber the left wall turns halfway 90 degrees inside, so that room was created to enter tomb 39. The left and back wall had arcosolia for inhumation. Beneath the floor, now disappeared, were formae with space for four bodies each.

 

  

 

 

 

• 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).