Tomb 96
In front of tomb 97 lies the semicircular tomb "a cassone" 96. The small grave lies transverse to the street and has an inscription on a marble slab of 32 x 26 cms on the short side, facing the street:
D(is) M(anibus)
ZOSIMES QVAE VIX(it)
ANNIS VIII MENS(ibus)
VII DIEB(us) XVI AELI
A HEROIS ET MA
TERNVS AUG(usti) LIB(ertus)
TABELL(arius) ALVMNAE
CARISSIMAE
FECERVNT
Aelia Herois and Maternus, freedman of the Emperor and his notary1, have made this for their beloved pupil, Zosime, who lived eight years, seven months and sixteen days.
Tomb 96 dates back to 150-200 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).
- Notes
- 1: The term "ALUMNA CARISSIMA" was used for a child raised by several persons. One of them was the freedman Maternus, who had the function of tabellarius, a kind of postman - I. Baldassarre, I. Bragantini, Ch. Morselli en F. Taglietti: Necropoli di Porto (1996).
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