TOMB 30 (continuation)

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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