A very special closed tomb has been discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, with a facade decorated with green plants on a blue background.
Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it was found in a burial chamber from a period when the bodies of adults in the city were always cremated.
Also, there is a marble inscription in it, which confirms that in the theaters of the Roman colony, at least in the last decades before the explosion, in 79 AD, it was also recited in Greek.
Another peculiarity concerns the preservation conditions of the deceased, who appears partially mummified, with his head covered with white hair, a partially preserved ear, as well as small pieces of the cloth that wrapped him.
"This is a puzzle that we are studying to understand if the body was embalmed and why," said one of the archaeologists.
"One of the best preserved skeletons of the ancient city," he added.
Built outside the Porta Sarno, one of the main entrance gates to the city, the tomb, dating to the last decades of Pompeii's life, belongs to Marcus Venerius Secundio, a former guard of the Temple of Venus (a very important, because the Romans called the colony Venus), as well as an Augustale or, alternatively, a member of a college of priests of the imperial cult.
The first tests on the body showed that he was over 60 years old and had never done hard work.
Among the mysteries to be solved is the presence in the enclosure of a glass urn with the ashes of a woman, Novia Amabilis, possibly his wife.
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