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It boasted ornately carved on the lintels around the entrance, inside were niches to house the dead called "loculi", each sealed with a portrait of the deceased, carved in limestone.

The passages are lined with the usual loculi for the dead, sometimes adapted for a single body, sometimes for two laid together.

The seeds are immersed in pulp, and are attached irregularly to the wall, base and centre of the loculi.

The picture we are about to examine is found over a loculus or grave in this cemetery of Priscilla.

The original entrance to the cemetery leads directly into a spacious corridor with no loculi, but recesses for sarcophagi, and decorations of the classical style of the 2nd century.