Just like tomb 88, the entrance of the enclosure
of tomb 90 comes out at the newly built tomb 89. The enclosure is,
like the burial chamber, organized as a columbarium.
In the niches are still traces of painted poppies.
The grave dates from 125-130 AD.
In the back-wall and entrance-wall of the enclosure traces of reuse
can be seen. Next to the entrance is a marble slab of 19 x 26 cms
with the following inscription:
DIS
. MAN
T
. FLAVI . AVG . LIB
FELICIS
. CLAVDIA
DAPHNE
. CONIVGI
BENE
. MERENTI
ET
. T . FLAVI . SEVERVS
PATRI
. FECERVNT
Claudia Daphne and Titus Flavius Severus have built <this grave>
for Titus Flavius Felix, freedman of the emperor. She for her very
beloved husband and he for his father.
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to continue tomb 90)
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