TOMB 82
Tomb
82 is a semicircular tomb "a cassone".
The grave, measuring 2,47 x 1,30 mtrs, runs parallel with the main
street.
The view on the Via Severiana is blocked by tomb 34.
The little tomb has an inscription on a marble slab
of 28 x 45 cms.:
D(is) M(anibus)
VETRONIAE P(ubli) LIB(ertae)
NAPHAME CONIV(gi)
BENE MERENTI
P(ublius) VETRONIVS VICTOR
FECIT
SIBI ET SVIS POSTERISQ(ue) EORVM
The tomb was built by Publius Vetronius Victor
for Vetronia Naphame, freedwoman of Publius, his very devoted wife,
for himself, his family, and the heirs.
Here too we must read a customary phrase, in case of inhumation.
The grave was obviously too small for so many people.
The owner of tomb 82 has tried to imitate the burial chamber of
a large tomb by attaching
an architrave of a door. |