Isola Sacra - Tomb 10

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Tomb 10 lies a little bit away from the Via Severiana and is wedged in between tomb 11 and (partly) tomb 9.
The facade of this grave and that of the burial chamber of tomb 11 lie in one line and are oriented towards the street. In contrast with tomb 11 there was no enclosure in this tomb.
The inscription above the entrance has disappeared. Only a part of the original cornice is left, as well as the places where two reliefs were attached on the wall. These two reliefs too have not been found.

In the lower part of the walls of the burial chamber we see a double row of arcosolia with on top of them a row of semicircular niches. We can estimate the date only in comparison with other tombs in this necropolis. The grave itself does not give a clue.
The most likely dating is about 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 Baldassare, Irene Bragantini, Chiara Morselli and Franc Taglietti - Necropoli di Porto, Isola Sacra (Roma 1996).