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	Lower Danube: Painting from Silistra Tomb Interior (4c AD) Detail of  female servant at Silistra (photo: K. Tanchev; Silistra Historical Museum, archives).
	Durostorum occupied the site of the modern town of Silistra, in the northeastern tip of Bulgaria. The eastern outskirts of Silistra lie on the Danube river, forming the border between Bulgaria and Romania. One of the major exhibits at the Silistra Historical Museum is the tomb of a Roman noble family, whose members lived during the 4th century AD, and were buried at Silistra.  In 1964 preservation efforts began on the tomb, allowing extensive reconstruction of its mural paintings.The polychrome walls each show scenes from the life of the family. Three of the Silistra Tomb's polychrome walls (with the exception of the eastern one) contain pictorial details of the heads of a noble Roman family and their attendants. In the north and south panels, male and female servants approach their deceased masters. The servants' clothing, sandals, and personal details such as hairstyles and earings provide rare historical insights into the 4th century AD Danubian world. ,
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