Subject
Epitaph bearing an inscription in Latin for Attia Asclepias (CIL VI.12759).
You read: D · M/ ATTIAE/ ASCLEPIADI.
Transliteration: D(is) M(anibus) Attiae Asclepiadi.
Translation: “To the spirits of the deceased. To Attia Asclepias”.
Accession number 1805,0703.191
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 in years 1731-1733.
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
Credits
The British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1805-0703-191
References
B. Cook, Documenting the Townley Marbles, London, British Museum, 2013, n. 262.
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (12759), Berlin, 1876-.
