Tomb 93Isola Sacra Menu

The enclosure of tomb 93 was clearly built secondarily. The façade and back wall of the burial chamber lie in one line with the burial chamber of tomb 92.
The inscription, framed in a nice cornice, has disappeared. Not only the cornice was richly decorated, the whole façade was provided with flower motifs and garlands.
The burial chamber was organized to inter urns only and had beautiful decorations of stucco and paintings. Unfortunately, little has remained.
In the back wall is a large, semicircular niche, flanked by two large, rectangular niches equipped with a triangular tympanum. In the arches a shell is depicted.
The wall with the entrance has two further rectangular niches. In those niches were paintings of Dionysian scenes.

 

The floor of the burial chamber was made of coloured mosaic. Alongside the back wall of tomb 93 is a large, brick bench for funerary rituals. 

The tomb seems to have been built around 130 AD. During a later reorganisation of the tomb the large niche of the back wall was broken out to make place for a pillar. On this pillar the following inscription can be read: 

D(is) M(anibus)
ARRIAE
MOSCHIDIS
C(aius) ARRIVS
IHERAX
PATRONAE
OPTIMAE
BEN(e) MER(enti)
FEC(it)

Caius Arrius Iherax has erected this for Arria Moschis, his good and well-deserving patroness.

 

 

• 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).