In the section on the necropolis numerous bone fragments with refined figurative decorations are exhibited: Bacchic processions, cupids with cornucopias, panthers, a head of Hercules, winged female figures, a dancing maenad. These fragments belonged to the decoration of some beds dating back to the end of the 1st century BC used for the deposition of the dead and then burned at the funeral pyre according to the rite then in use. The elements were found, with evident signs of the combustion suffered and therefore blackened and fragmentary, during excavations carried out during the 60s of the last century in the area behind the apses of the church of San Lorenzo, where in Roman times there was a necropolis . The figured decoration in engraved bone covered the legs of the beds, the external sides of the frame and the sides placed on the part of the head and feet (called fulcra) with scenes of mythological inspiration, which in some cases have complex eschatological meanings connected to the hopes for the afterlife. The custom of placing the deceased on a precious bed decorated with engraved ivory plates is very ancient but was particularly widespread in the Hellenistic period and then became widely established in Rome and in the Roman world, where the precious ivory was increasingly replaced by bone. . For the understanding of the structure and decoration, the discovery of some specimens from burial tombs was fundamental, which are recovered in a much better state of conservation than those placed in cremation tombs, burned at the funeral pyre.