TOMB 30 (continuation)
The burial chamber is, just like the original burial chamber of
tomb 29, equipped with three arcosolia for inhumation alongside
the lower parts of the walls, and with niches for urns
in the upper parts. In the middle of the walls is a semicircular
niche with a triangular
tympanum, flanked by smaller rectangular niches.
Beneath the floor, originally with a black-and-white mosaic,
burial places have been found as well.
The paintings in this tomb have partly survived.
Both the right niche in the back wall and the right one in the left
wall
have a painting of a heroic figure with a sacrificial bowl.
In the left niche on the right wall the head of Serapis was visible.
In the central niches of both lateral walls mythological scenes were
depicted,
which are now in the museum of Ostia.
One represented Zeus and Hera, the other Mars and Venus.
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