TOMB 35 and 36
Tombs
35 and 36 were built as one grave with two burial
chambers, each with its own entrance, facing the Via Severiana.
Tomb 35 borders on the south to tomb 34.
Tomb 36 is detached on three sides.
Both graves are arranged for inhumation only. Beneath the floor
too burial places were located. The walls have double rows of
arcosolia. Between the rubbish of the collapsed walls marble fragments
have been found during the excavations. This points to sarcophagi
or to arcosolia with marble covers.
The floor had a black-and-white mosaic.
In tomb 35 are still some traces of painted decorations with flowers in the
niches.
The tombs date from a rather late period (first half of
the third century AD).
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