This tomb too was built as a columbarium, but
was also used for inhumation later on.
Below the niches in the burial chamber are marble plates, once used
for the names
of the deceased. These kind of tombs were probably used in later
time
by members of a funeral society (see also tomb 60, 63, 77, 85, 87
en 94).
Above the central rectangular niche in each wall there is a triangular
tympanum. The niche in the left wall has a painting of Neptune
on a white/yellow background. You can clearly see the trident in
his left hand. In the one in the right wall Hercules was depicted
with
a club in his right hand (now in the depot of Ostia).
The ceiling, white plastered, had painted circles; six in breadth
and
five in the length of the grave. Some of these circles still had
paintings
of male and female heads
(probably the four seasons).
Other ones were showing
painted flowers. The best
preserved pictures are stored
in the Ostian depots.
Brick stamps are dating tomb 79
back to 123 AD.
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