TOMB 20

Tombs 20 and 21 form a couple. The facades of both graves are unique. They are decorated
with three brick semi-columns on a marble foot and with marble semi-capitals.
Like tomb 19, tomb 20 has lost its view on the Via Severiana after the erection of tomb 24. The inscription above the entrance has disappeared as well.
From the once rich decoration in the burial chamber little has been left. However, fragments of a mosaic floor have been found, below which four burial places were located.
On a covering plate of a sarcophagus the following text was written:

D(is) M(anibus)
TV QVI LEGES SPONDEO [------ A]MICE QVOT ME
DISCVMBENTE BIBENTE VIDES
HOC QVANDIV VIXI [------]TIMA FECI IDEM ET TIBI DII FACIANT

You, friend (...) who shall read this, while I am lying down, and who will see this alive,
I have done this (...) when I was alive, and may the gods do this also to you.

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