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The Tomb of Fadilla is a hypogeum burial site of the roman period located in the Grottarossa area of the Via Flaminia in Rome. It takes it's name from Fadilla, almost certainly a noble woman from the Antoni family or a slave.

History and description
The tomb was built between the end of the II and the beginning of the III century, during the imperial period of the roman empire. The tomb is located on the Via Flaminia in Rome, not far from the Tomba dei Nasoni. The tomb was discovered in 1924 within the farm belonging to the Molinario family, in what is now Via Casali Molinario. The year after archaeologists found several artefacts that led them to believe that a villa once stood on that location; however, it is not known whether the tomb and the villa were somehow connected. On the 22 of September 2018 the tomb was reopened to the public for the occasion of the European Heritage Days, after a 15 year restoration that cost about 40 thousand euro.

The tomb originally had a façade shaped as a temple, which went lost in time, and was dug out of tufa in the side of a hill. Inside, it is comprised of one room with a vaulted ceiling and a mosaic floor with black and white tiles in geometric forms which has at it's center the depiction of a bird resting on a branch. Along the side walls and the end wall, beneath the level of the floor, there are three arcosoliums, each containing two tombs. In the central arcosolium there are two frescoed peacocks that hold hold in their beaks a cloth band to which crowns are tied. Among the other frescoes are winged genii, personifications of the seasons and faces of children. An inscription on the wall has the name "Fadilla", put there by her husband.