Tomb 61Isola Sacra Menu

 

From right to left: tomb 61, 62,63 and 64.
Between tomb 60, 61 and 62 several amphorae above earth graves.

 

Tomb 61 is a tomb "a cassone" and belongs, like tomb 60, to the westernmost graves in the necropolis. The front is turned towards the Via Severiana and had the following inscription:

DIS MANIBVS
ONESIMO
M(arcus) ORBIVS SCAPVLA
EVOC(atus) AVG(usti)
OPTIMO SERVO
FECIT

The grave was built by Marcus Orbius Scapula, re-enlisted veteran of the emperor, for Onesimus, his excellent slave.
Today the inscription is not in situ anymore. 

Tomb 61.

 

  • 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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