Tomb 59
Tomb 59 is a semicircular tomb "a cassone" (1,50 x 0,60 m) with an aedicula, probably to imitate the facade of a tomb with a burial chamber.
The little grave is located near the back wall of tomb 58 and is, contrary to the latter, oriented on the Via Severiana.
The inscription, described by Calza as well as by Thylander, cannot be seen on the grave anymore:
D(is) M(anibus)
SILIAE FRONTIDI
QVAE VIX(it) AN(nis) VIII
MEN(sibus) X DIEB(us) VII
C(aius) SILIVS MERCVRIVS
ET SILIA FORTVNATA
FILIAE PIENTISSI
MAE FECERVNT
The inscription tells us that the grave was built by Caius Silius Mercurius and Silia Fortunata for their very pious daughter Silia Frontis, who passed away in the age of eight years, ten months and seven days.
- 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).
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