containing sarcophagi, were equipped with an oven and a well for preparing these banquets. Tomb 86 of the Isola Sacra necropolis, for example, presents a well, an oven, and masonry benches for the participants [...] well into the 3 rd century, as tomb 34 of the Isola Sacra that was equipped with a well and an oven as well illustrates. In many 3 rd century tombs, there was not enough room to celebrate ritual [...] chambers of the later 2 nd and 3 rd centuries, since rituals continued to be celebrated as ovens, wells, and cooking pots show. The sarcophagus then must have made its impression elsewhere, if not