Tomb 81Isola Sacra Menu

Tomb 81 is a small tomb originally completely detached. This grave too had a biclinium with a table of which the base still exists. On the left bench of the biclinium a tomb "a cassone" has been built later on.
Above the entrance is a marble slab of 37 x 36 cms. On this slab two inscriptions were made next to each other:

 The left inscription tells us that Claudia Nice has made the monument for herself and for her son, Claudius Lupercus. The right one mentions that, with permission of Claudius Lupercus, Caius Nunnidius Fortunatus has used a part of the grave for himself, his children, freed slaves, and their children.

The passageway between tombs 81 and 80 was closed in later time by building a funerary oven. Tomb 80 is small and lower than the other tombs in this row. The burial chamber was meant for urns only. The walls were painted in red. Tomb 80 probably dates back to the time of Trajan.

 Somewhat to the west of tomb 81 we still see the remains of a tomb "a cassone", known as tomb 81A. Today the grave is completely covered and we don't have any information available.

• 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).