Tomb 17Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 17, from the time of Antoninus Pius, consists of a burial chamber on three sides detached and an entrance opening on the Via Severiana. The southern wall is bounded by the enclosure of tomb 16.
The tomb is preserved to a height of less than one metre. On the other hand, a piece of the floor has been preserved.
The tomb was only meant for inhumation and had on each wall, with the exception of the entrance wall, a double row of arcosolia.
In the north-east corner, to the right of the entrance, are four steps of a staircase which led to an upper floor (probably a solarium). Beneath the floor four formae were brought to light.
The burial chamber measures 4,90 x 3,80 m.

 

• 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).