TOMB 29 (continuation)
The
door to the enclosure is also the door to the new burial chamber.
The floor between this door and the one of the original burial
chamber has a black-and-white mosaic with geometrical motifs.
On the façade of the original burial chamber is
another relief with a man working on a millstone, as on one of
the reliefs on the wall of the enclosure.
Above the entrance an inscription was attached. This inscription,
now probably wrongly placed on tomb 15, mentions again Veria Zosime
and tells us that the grave was built for herself and for her
beloved husband, Lucius Verrius Eucharistus, and their freed slaves and heirs.
The distances around the burial chamber are 10 x 10 Roman feet. The
measurements of the area coincide with these measures (see also
tomb 15).
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Tomb
29: The entrance to the original burial chamber
seen
from the entrance of the enclosure. On the left
hand
the stairs to the upper floor.
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