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Above the entrance of the enclosure of tomb 76 we find the inscription that mentions the dividing of the original tomb:

D(is) M(anibus)

 The inscription, on a marble slab of 39 x 67 cms, says that Marcus Antonius Agathias has built a tomb inside the tomb of Marcus Cocceius Daphnus, of which he is an heir. After the division among his fellow-heirs has been made, a wall shall be erected and a new entrance shall be placed, The grave will be used for himself, for his freed slaves, and for the descendants.

Above the entrance of the burial chamber of tomb 76 is an inscription on a marble slab of 32 x 54 cms. Only the right side of the plate was used, the left side is empty:

In this inscription Marcus Antonius Pius allows Aemilia Maiorica and Cominius Silvanus to be burried on the right side for those entering, together with their freed slaves and the descendants.

• 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).