BURIAL AREA ON VIA OSTIENSE

SEPOLCRETO OSTIENSE
Via Ostiense 190

Cemetery used between the second century BC and the fourth century AD

Dug in the years 1918/19 by Giuseppe Lugli

Now it's visible in an area under a roof and some remains are on the so-called ROCCIA DI S. PAOLO (Rock of St. Paul)

It developed on three main levels as indicated by the most ancient tombs located in the north section, where it remains only the façade of a cell built with tufa stone blocks with a door framed by jambs and lintel in travertine stone

On this tomb dated to the second century BC overlapped in the imperial era two tombs built in bricks: the first is preserved only in small part, and the second looks like a typical columbarium

AREA WITH NICHES ON THE WALLS
It is made with reticulated masonry and it was originally uncovered, as it seems to indicate the well clad in bricks and outcropping on the original floor

AREA UNDER THE ROOF
In the southern part thre is the Tomb of the Pontii family of the first century AD

The building type most represented in the cemetery is the columbarium
In nearby Centrale Montemartini are kept portraits of the dead, funerary altars, urns, and sarcophagi found here