Tomb 28Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 28 is the last grave of the group formed by tombs 25 till 28. Like tomb 27, the grave is much smaller in size than tombs 25 and 26.
The burial chamber was used for inhumation only and dates from the second century AD.
Of the walls of the tomb not much more than one metre above the ground has remained.
In the niche in the right wall decorations of flowers can be seen.
Beneath the floor, which is not present anymore, five formae have been found. In each forma two persons could be buried above each other.

 

 

 

• 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).