Subject
Epitaph bearing an inscription in Latin for Paquvia Agele (CIL VI.23820).
You read: OSSA · SITA PAQVVIAE · C · PAQVVI · RVFI · L AGELE · VIXIT · ANN · XXV.
Transliteration: Ossa sita Paquviae C(aii) Paquvi Rufi l(ibertae) Agel(a)e vixit ann(is) XXV.
Translation: “(Here) lie the bones of Paquvia Agela, freedwoman of Caius Paquvius Rufus. (She) lived twenty-five years”.
Accession number 1805,0703.200
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_1805-0703-200
References
B. Cook, Documenting the Townley Marbles, London, British Museum, 2013, n. 257.
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (23820), Berlin, 1876-.
