Tomb

The tomb of C. Domitius Fabius Hermogenes in the Necropolis outside the Porta Romana gate of Ostia.
It was a high, square monument, perhaps decorated with marble (only part of the core has been preserved). The sarcophagus must have been placed in a room in the upper part, which was reached along a narrow staircase. Next to the tomb a long inscription was found (CIL XIV, 4642), that informs us that it was the last resting place of C. Domitius Fabius Hermogenes, priest of the deified Hadrian. The city council had honoured him with a public funeral and with an equestrian statue in the Forum, the base of which has been found (CIL XIV, 353). Fragments of a marble architrave were found on which the name of Hermogenes has been preserved.