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Tomb 41 is located in front of the older tomb 42 and seems to occupy the enclosure of that grave.
Tomb 41 lies along the same line as tomb 40 and is looking out over the Via Severiana.
The grave was built for inhumation. Only the side walls had a double row of arcosolia. In one of the arcosolia on the left wall a fragment of a terracotta sarcophagus is still to be seen.
Beneath the floor are three formae, each for two bodies. Many pieces of the mosaic floor have been found in these formae. The floor itself does not exist anymore.
In the lower niche on the right side a painting has survived. The painting consists of two levels. On the lower level we see fruit and flowers on a green background surrounded by trees. The second level shows a bird against a white background. Because of the bad state of this tomb it is hardly possible to give a reliable date. The painting dates from the first part of the third century AD.

 

 

• 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).