
TOMB 29 (continuation)
The whole floor of the lower burial chamber was covered by a black-and-white mosaic.
The stairs bring you to the upper floor. This floor was also divided
into two parts.
The first part was a solarium, an open space surrounded by a low
balustrade.
This balustrade was equipped with a marble border by which rainwater
could be carried off. On the floor is a black-and-white mosaic
representing the same worktable as the one on the reliefs.
Via the solarium one reached the upper part of the second burial
chamber, built for inhumation only. Unfortunately little of this
room
has been preserved. The only important thing we can still see
are two amphorae for libation, depicted in the floor mosaic next
to
the entrance of this burial chamber.
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