Tomb 21Isola Sacra Menu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomb 21 and tomb 20 are one of a kind. Tomb 21 can only partly be seen from the Via Severiana. Here too the inscription above the entrance is missing. The burial chamber was meant for a mixed form of burial. In contrast with tomb 20 a little bit more decoration has been preserved. Later a second arcosolium was created in the right wall above the original one. The new one had a beautiful painting (Ostia, inv. nr. 10818). On a yellow field three squares surrounded by red stripes were painted. In the middle square was a Medusa-head. The other squares depicted flowers. The top of the arcosolium was decorated with paintings of birds and flowers. Beneath the floor four formae were located. On a piece of mosaic from the floor an inscription is to be noticed: EXATI, probably a name. Tomb 21 must also be dated around 160-170 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).