Tomb 19 (early-Antonine)

The walls with arcosolia have a white background with green garlands and tendrils, yellow flowers, and winged griffins. Between the garlands is a mask.

General view.
Photo: ICCD E041030.

A griffin.
Photo: Calza 1940, fig. 60.

A mask.
Photo: ICCD E041045.

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In one of the arcosolia two sea-horses flank yellow flowers and green vegetation, in the other arcosolia is aquatic vegetation.

Paintings in arcosolia.
Photo: ICCD E017013.

Painting in an arcosolium: a landscape between two hippocamps.
Photo: ICCD E017025.

Detail of the landscape.
Photo: ICCD E041073.

Detail of a hippocamp.
Photo: ICCD E041078.

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A married couple holding hands (dextrarum iunctio) is depicted in the semicircular central niche for urns in the back wall.

A dextrarum iunctio.
Photo: ICCD E041107.

Detail of the wife.
Photo: Scavi di Ostia V, Tav. A.

Detail of the wife.
Photo: ICCD E041046.

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A man and a horse are depicted in the semicircular central niche for urns in the left wall. The painting of the central niche in the right wall is lost.

A man and a horse.
Photo: ICCD E041052.

A man and a horse, detail.
Photo: ICCD E041053.

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Smaller rectangular niches for urns have floral morifs and dancing Fauns. Higher up in the walls are curved decorative niches, each with a plaster pine cone painted with scales.

Floral motifs.
Photo: ICCD E041180.

Floral motifs.
Photo: Parco Archeologico di Ostia.

A Faun.
Photo: ICCD E041103.