Tomb 82Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 82 is a semicircular tomb "a cassone". The grave, measuring 2,47 x 1,30 mtrs, runs parallel with the main street. The view on the Via Severiana is blocked by tomb 34.
The little tomb has an inscription on a marble slab of 28 x 45 cms.:

D(is) M(anibus)
VETRONIAE P(ubli) LIB(ertae)
NAPHAME CONIV(gi)
BENE MERENTI
P(ublius) VETRONIVS VICTOR
FECIT
SIBI ET SVIS POSTERISQ(ue) EORVM

The tomb was built by Publius Vetronius Victor for Vetronia Naphame, freedwoman of Publius, his very devoted wife, for himself, his family, and the heirs.

Here too we must read a customary phrase, in case of inhumation. The grave was obviously too small for so many people. The owner of tomb 82 has tried to imitate the burial chamber of a large tomb by attaching an architrave of a door.

• 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).