The tomb is located NW of the ancient Aige, near Vergina and is named after the professor Konstantinos Romaios who discovered and excavated it.
It is made of porolite, except for the door panels, pilasters and lintels, which are marble.
It consists of a square chamber with a side length of 4.66 m and a smaller vestibule.
The inward deviation of the walls of the tomb is remarkable.
Its decoration, both on the front and on the interior surfaces, is based on painted mortars. The facade is accentuated by four Ionic semi-columns of unusually high nine-ribs resting on single-spiral bases and, together with the pilasters from which they rise, on a 0.18m high pilaster. These semi-columns follow the inward slope of the wall and end in simple in design and small in size Ionic capitals with rich color decoration that makes them appear larger.
The very elegant thrigos consists of a two-banded architrave with an Ionic wave, a cosmophorus and a cornice with relatively large geissipods and two Lesbian waves.
The facade is crowned by a small pediment with a simi which, as can be seen from the fragments found, was decorated.
The cosmophorus, above the architrave, is decorated with repeated pairs of floral jewels.
Particularly imposing was the entrance to the tomb with its marble shutters, which led to the vestibule. The walls were covered with mortar and the artist who decorated them has rendered the joints of the stones with gilded lines. A cosmophore goes around the sides of the vestibule surprising with the variety of colors and the alternations of colorful flowers.
The mortuary chamber, on the contrary, is characterized by austere simplicity and austerity and only a wide blue band encircles it at a height of 2.22 m from the floor, which is framed above and below by Ionic and Lesbian corbels. You can see nail holes where the relatives had apparently hung the weapons, clothes and other personal belongings of the deceased.
In the chamber, in addition to the bed, there is also an imposing 2.98 m high marble throne resting on a 0.15 m high marble base and which is elaborately decorated with sphinxes and hymns. On the sides of the throne, a painting using the encaustic method is preserved, where in a narrow zone two griffins are depicted crushing a deer.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou