{"id":6433,"date":"2026-01-09T17:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/pannelli-didattici-e-mappe\/la-necropoli-della-via-ostiense\/tomba-degli-archetti\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:56:46","slug":"tomba-degli-archetti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/educational-panels-and-maps\/la-necropoli-della-via-ostiense\/tomba-degli-archetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomb of the arches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Built in the early 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, this tomb initially took the form of a funerary precinct in opus reticulatum. The north fa\u00e7ade is particularly finely made, with architectural features in brick surmounted by arches: the lunettes are decorated with multi-coloured inlays in yellow and red brick, alternating with pieces of tufa and pumice stone.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDrawing of the mosaic found in the tomb during the 1857 excavations (C.L. Visconti)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tFa\u00e7ade of the tomb on Via dei Sepolcri (O. Visca)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n

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In the second half of the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0century AD, the tomb was turned into a columbarium with niches for the cinerary urns along the walls. Starting from the 2nd\u00a0<\/sup>century AD, larger niches were added for inhumation burials (arcosolia)<\/em>. During this final phase, a further two rooms connecting the tomb with Via dei Sepolcri were built, on a higher level than the original structure.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDetail of brick, pumice and tufa decorations from the Via Ostiensis necropolis (I. Gismondi)\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\tDetail of the little central arch\n\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Built in the early 1st\u00a0century AD, this tomb initially took the form of a funerary precinct in opus reticulatum. The north fa\u00e7ade is particularly finely made, with architectural features in brick surmounted by arches: the lunettes are decorated with multi-coloured inlays in yellow and red brick, alternating with pieces of tufa and pumice stone.  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6429,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-albero.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6434,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6433\/revisions\/6434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostiaantica.cultura.gov.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}