Roman tomb, Brestovik

[3][4] He notified the authorities and in September 1895 Mihailo Valtrović, the curator of the National Museum in Belgrade and founder of the archaeology in Serbia, was dispatched to the site.

[5] Characteristics point to the Roman (pagan) sepulchral structure,[5] which probably belonged to the wealthy family which had an estate and a villa in the vicinity, probably of a noble or a military commander.

Within its period, it shows the connections with other Late Roman monuments, up to 6th century, on the territory of Serbia, but also much wider, on the Balkans and the Middle East.

Plans were also made to nominate it to be a part of the interstate protected area of the Limes of the Roman Empire, in its Danube section in Serbia (also including Belgrade Fortress, Viminacium, etc.).

As the access path is passing through the privately owned lot, it will be relocated, with the usual additional objects (new gate, road and tourist signs, benches, greenery around the tomb, etc.).

Licinius ordered for both of them to be tortured and drowned, so in the end they were put in one coffin and, still alive, thrown below the Singidunum Fortress at the Sava's mouth into the Danube, in 314 or 315.

Despite protests from the experts, institutions and the owners of the lot, local clergy and worshipers entered the tomb in 2014, bringing icons, candles and flowers, and holding services, which partially damaged the monument.

As the tomb leans on modern cemetery, the church offered to the owners to buy the lot from them so that an entrance directly though the graveyard could be built, but they refused.

Church archaeologists claim that the saints were originally hastily buried in the Grocka's region of Dubočaj, a bit to the west, and then were reinterred to the new tomb in Brestovik when it was built.

They claim that existence of the windows in the chamber prove that it was a room with relics and that one of the faint fresco figures is actually a Virgin Mary with Jesus, with two halos.

Archaeologists disputed all this, saying that the image of Virgin Mary with Jesus was not yet used in that period and that absolutely everything discovered in the tomb shows that it is a "classical mausoleum of the high positioned member of an aristocratic family, [probably] an official or employee in the administration of Singidunum".