
The burial chamber is, just like the original burial chamber of
tomb 29, equipped with three arcosolia for inhumation alongside
the lower parts of the walls and niches for urns
in the upper parts. In the middle of the walls there is a semi-circular
niche with a triangular
tympanum flanked by smaller rectangular niches.
Beneath the floor, originally of black and white mosaic, there
have
been found burial places too.
The paintings in this tomb have partly survived.
Both the right niche on the back-wall and the right on the left
wall
do have a painting of a heroic figure with a sacrificial bowl.
In the left niche on the right wall the head of Serapis was visible.
In the central niches of both lateral-walls mythical scenes were
depicted
which are now in the museum of Ostia.
One represented Zeus and Hera, the other Mars and Venus.
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