Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas - Access of the burial chamber via a steep staircase that leads into a rectangular room covered by a vault finely decorated with plant motifs. The construction of the tomb, as other inscriptions testify, dates back to between the principality of Tiberius and that of Claudius (14-51 AD), but it continued to be used later, in the Flavian age (69-96 AD), when the mosaic of Pomponius Hylas and some changes to the decorative apparatus, up to the Antonine age (138-161 AD) - Parco degli Scipioni, Rome, Italy
Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas - Access of the burial chamber via a steep staircase that leads into a rectangular room covered by a vault finely decorated with plant motifs. The construction of the tomb, as other inscriptions testify, dates back to between the principality of Tiberius and that of Claudius (14-51 AD), but it continued to be used later, in the Flavian age (69-96 AD), when the mosaic of Pomponius Hylas and some changes to the decorative apparatus, up to the Antonine age (138-161 AD) - Parco degli Scipioni, Rome, Italy
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Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
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