Boiler Room - Funerary Monuments and the Ostiense Necropolis
Funerary Monuments and the Ostiense Necropolis
In the funerary art section are displayed the funerary monument of Sulpicius Maximus, who, as a very young poet, won a musical competition in 94 AD, and the funerary cippo of Giulius Elius Iulus, a rich shoemaker shown in a pose of heroic nudity.
Additionally, the principle phases of the vast necropolis, which was in use from the end of the late republican period to the IVth century AD, are illustrated with portraits of the dead, funerary altars, ash urns, funerary cippi and sarcophagai. The necropolis was discovered in the environs of the Church of Saint Paul Outside the Walls; part of it is still visible in the middle of the current road.
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