Tomb 64Isola Sacra Menu

 Tomb 64 had a height of 1.30 metres and is the only tomb in this necropolis with the entrance towards the sea.
The inscription on this grave nevertheless points to the main street. It was attached to the back wall: 

DIS MANIBVS
P(ublio) BETILIENO SYNEGDEMO
BETILIENA ANTIOCHIS
CONIVGI BENE MERENTI
LIBERTIS LIBERTABVS POSTERISQVE
EORVM FECIT

According to this inscription, tomb 64 was built by Betiliena Antiochis for Publis Betilienus Synegdemus, her well-deserving husband, and for their freed slaves, and the descendants.

Tomb 64 was used for interring urns. Neither beneath the floor nor alongside the walls traces were found for inhumation burials.
In tomb 64 a marble urn has been found with the name of the donor as well as the name of the person to whom the grave was dedicated in the first place. Probably we have to deal with the ashes of both wife and husband:

D(is) M(anibus) P(ubli) BETILIENI
SYNEGDEMI ET
BETILIENAE ANTIOCHIDI
CVRA
M(arci) COSCONI HYGINI

 The donor was Marcus Cosconius Hyginus. The ashes were
of Publius Betilienus Synegdemus and Betiliena Antiochis.

Several stamped bricks were found in this grave, including this one:
SAL(arese) EX PR(aediis) COR(neli) SEVE(ri)
This brick has been made when Cornelius Severus was consul.
Therefore tomb 64 has to be
dated to the time of Trajan or Hadrian.

• 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).