Tomb 73Isola Sacra Menu

 

Tomb 73 is located nrhinf the back-wall of tomb 36. The base of the table lies in front of the tomb.
On the left side is the passageway to the Via Severiana.


Tomb 73 is an almost square tomb "a cassone" (1.05 x 0.95 metres). The entrance is oriented to the west, thus versus the Via Severiana. In front of the tomb is the base for a table. Tomb 73 has an inscription written on a marble slab of 30 x 39 cm.:

D(is) M(anibus)
L(ucio) MINDIO DIOGAE
IVLIA ZOE CONIVGI
B(ene) M(erenti) F(aciendum) C(uravit)
ET SIBI ET SVIS POSTERIS
Q(ue) EORVM

According to this inscription the grave was built by Iulia Zoe for Lucius Mindius Dioga, her devoted husband, for herself, her family and the descendants1.
The inscription is located on the back side.
Tomb 73 dates back to the time of Antoninus Pius.

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Tomb 73: the backside with the inscription.

 

Tomb 73: the inscription.

 

  • 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: Ida Baldassarre puts, because of the seize of the small tomb, that it is out of the question that there should be place for several burials, as the inscription mentions. Presumably it was a turn of phrase more out of respect than meant literally. I. Baldassarre, I. Bragantini, Ch. Morselli en F. Taglietti: Necropoli di Porto (1996)

 

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