In use between the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 4th C. AD., it served a local community that was partly made up of the servants of the major villas of the imperial age together with the inhabitants of the small urban centre which stood not far from the cemetery area.

 

Neither very grandiose, nor richly decorated, the burials nevertheless prove to be very interestings seeing as most of them are almost intact. The Greek and Latin inscriptions on the gravestones have proven to be a precious aid to understanding the evolution of language and writing in those years.