TOMB 93 (continuation)
The
floor of the burial chamber was made of coloured mosaic.
Alongside the back wall of tomb 93 is a large, brick bench for funerary
rituals.
The tomb seems to have been built around 130 AD.
During a later reorganisation of the tomb the large niche
of the back wall was broken out to make place for
a pillar.
On this pillar the following inscription can be read:
D(is) M(anibus)
ARRIAE
MOSCHIDIS
C(aius) ARRIVS
IHERAX
PATRONAE
OPTIMAE
BEN(e) MER(enti)
FEC(it)
Caius Arrius Iherax has erected this
for Arria Moschis, his good and well-deserving patroness.
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