s, are decorated with paintings of birds andanimals. A third burial-place in the same region consists of•three corridors forming a horseshoe, divided by pilasters intocompartments, and containing some 800 niches designed to holdfour urns each. Here too, the upper rows were approached bymeans of a… … Fig. 34. Plan of Columbarium. second century, when burials took place on the floors of the corri-dors. Near the three columbaria which have been described is afourth, close to the Porta Latina, which is popularly called the Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas , since a tablet bearing thatname occupies a…
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