Isola Sacra - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Isola Sacra - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Isola Sacra Necropolis was the first large-scale pagan cemetery of Roman Imperial times to be excavated. The excavator-in-chief of most of Isola Sacra was Guido Calza. The necropolis was found on the manmade island of Isola Sacra, which lies between the cities of Portus and Ostia Antica, a region just south of Rome. The emperor Trajan was in power when this artificial island was created. Much of the excavated necropolis flanked the Via Severiana, which ran through Isola Sacra and traveled southeast from Ostica to Terracina.White, M.L. Synagogue and Society in Imperial Ostia: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence. The Harvard Theological Review 1997; 90: 23-58. Read more on Wikipedia
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