The   walls   of   the niches of these two tombs are each divided into two registers:  the upper register is devoted to the myth of Osiris, the lower to that of Persephone     The upper frieze of the tombs’ back walls shows the lustration of the mummy ( the death of Osiris, though it may as likely refer to the death of the inhabitant of the sarcophagus assimilated to the deity). Below is a scene of the abduction of Persephone, a scene frequent in Roman-period tombs throughout the Empire, regardless of the gender of the deceased.   The left wall of Tomb 2, and almost certainly the right wall of Tomb 1 (the lower part is destroyed by the robbers’ cut), present two more scenes – the upper interpreted  as the resurrection of Osiris and, below, the   anodos   of Persephone partly risen from the earth, having finally been discharged from Hades for six months of the year. The latter is a scene rarely visualized in Greek or   Roman a...