TOMB 38

Tomb 38 borders partly on tomb 39, but was built in a later period. The grave consists of a large enclosure with a burial chamber. The burial chamber and the enclosure have their entrance to the north, thus diagonally to the Via Severiana. The enclosure is almost totally occupied by formae, as is the free space between tombs 72 and 39. All the burial places were covered by a mosaic floor.
The northern wall of the enclosure uses partly tomb 39 and
the south-west corner of the façade of tomb 72.
The remains of a staircase at the entrance of the enclosure
point to the existence of an upper floor.
Tomb 38 covers the location of older tombs "a cassone" and
"alla cappucina" from the earliest period of the necropolis. On those
places, out of respect to the old graves, no new formae were built.

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