Tomb 98Isola Sacra Menu

tombe94 01 — On the right side tomb 97. Tomb 98 and 98bis were found in the slope behind tomb 97.

Behind tomb 97, on the side of the ancient coastline, two small tombs have been found during the first excavation campaign. The graves are called tomb 98 and tomb 98bis. Tomb 98 was a tomb "a cassone" measuring 2,40 x 0,85 metres. The tomb had the following inscription on a marble slab of 28 x 35 cms:

D(is) M(anibus)
ANTONIAE TYCHE
MATRI OPTIMAE FEC(erunt)
MMM(arci tres) ANTONII
VITALIS CAPITO IANVARIVS
FILII PIISSIMI

The pious sons, Marcus Antonius Vitalis, Capito and Ianuarius have built this grave for their outstanding mother Antonia Tyche.

Tomb 98 dates from the time of Trajan or Hadrian, and is older than tomb 95, on which we can read that one of the sons, Marcus Antonius Vitalis, has built himself a tomb.
Tomb 98 cannot be seen today.

The backwall from tomb 97 seen from the north. Tomb 98bis lie in the dlope behind tomb 97.

Tomb 98bis looks like a square base and measures 30 x 25 cms. This grave was located behind tomb 97.
The front side was completely occupied by a marble slab with the following inscription:

D(is) M(anibus)
CLVENTIAE
SVCCESSAE
NEPOTI VIX(it) A(nnis)
VIIII TI(berius) CLAV
DIVS FELIX F(ecit) P(ro) F(ilia)

Tiberius Claudius Felix has built this for Cluentia Successa, his granddaughter, who lived nine years, on behalf of his daughter.
Presumably the father had died.
Like tomb 98, tomb 98bis dates from the earliest period of the necropolis. This tomb too cannot be seen.

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).