Tomb 2
The entrance of the excavation area is located on the south side. We walk through the gate and are standing on the remains of the former busy click to enlarge picturemain street, the Via Severiana. Immediately we notice tomb 1 on our left hand. A small pyramid-shaped monument built of brick in which the urn was placed. The detached tomb stands in the middle of the open area between the Via Severiana and tombs 2, 3 and 4. On the monument is an inscription on a small marble plate, which says that this monument was dedicated to Caius Annaeus Atticus, who passed away when he was 37 years of age; that he was originally coming from Poitiers, a town in the province of Aquitania (France). The text also tells us that the monument was erected by the members of his family (or household slaves?).
D(is) M(anibus) C(ai) ANNAEI ATTICI PICT(onis) EX AQVITANICA PRO(vincia) DEF(uncti) ANN(orum) XXXVII DOMESTICI EIVS PONENDVM CVRARVNT
According to G. Calza, who carried out he excavations during the 30s of the past century, the Latin abbreviation PICT had to be read as PICTORIS instead of PICTONIS. So he thought the deceased was a painter. He mentioned the next part of the text as "rare". Guido Calza: Necropoli Nell'Isola Sacra 1940
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