Subject
Epitaph bearing an inscription in Latin (CIL VI.17805).
You read: D M FELICISSIMAE · FIL DVLCISSIMAE · QVAE VIX · ANNVM · M · IIII · D · V L · AVFIDIVS · EVTYCHVS ET · EVGENIA · MATER FECERVNT.
Transliteration: D(is) M(anibus) felicissimae fil(iae) dulcissimae quae vix(it) annum m(enses) IIII d(ies) V L(ucius) Aufidius Eutychus et Eugenia mater fecerunt.
Translation: “To the spirits of the deceased. Lucius Aufidius Eutychus and Eugenia, (her) mother, made (this) for the heappiest (and) sweetest daughter, who lived one year, four months (and) five days”.
Accession number 1805,0703.195
Marble
Provenance
Found in a columbarium close to the point in which the Via Appia and the Via Latina begin, it then entered the Ficoroni collection.
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
Credits
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-195
References
B. Cook, Documenting the Townley Marbles, London, British Museum, 2013, n. 255.
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (17805), Berlin, 1876-.
