TOMB 54 (continuation)

The well preserved burial chamber has been organized for a mixed form of burials.
The walls have small rectangular niches on both sides of a large central niche.
The organisation of the left wall, however, differs strongly from the other walls
and dates probably from a time of reuse.
The once pretty decoration of the grave is almost completely lost.
The floor of the burial chamber had, like the path between the biclinium
of the enclosure, a black-and-white mosaic.
In front of the right wall of the burial chamber a stripe with a name was
placed in the mosaic, probably the name of the man who found
his "place of no fear" here:

                     T(ito) IVLIO ARGIO

In the walls some stamped bricks have been found,
so that we can date tomb 54 to 123 AD.

                        The burial chamber.
                        Click in the middle of the picture to enlarge that part.
                        Click on the left wall for a view of the left side of the burial chamber.
                        Click on the right wall for a view of the right side.