Subject
Slab with inscription in Latin (CIL VI.37859a), bearing the name of the owner of a niche inside a columbarium on the Via Latina, consisting of five rows of niches and identified as “Tomb of the XXXVI socii”.
You read: P · SONTI · Ɔ · L · PHILOSTORGVS SORS · I · LOCO · III.
Transliteration: P(ublius) Sonti(us) ((mulieris)) l(ibertus) Philostorgus sors I loco III.
Translation: “Publius Sontius Philostorgus, freedman of a woman, first row, third niche” (first row means the bottom row).
Accession number 1900,0517.1
Marble
1-200 A.D.
Provenance
Found on the Via Latina
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
Credits
The British Museum
References
A Guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum, London, British Museum, 1908 (III ed.), p. 136.
D. Booms, Latin Inscriptions, London, British Museum Press, 2016, pp. 45-46.
G. Gatti, ‘Singolari iscrizioni dell’aedificium XXXVI sociorum sulla Via Latina’, in “BCom” 10, 1882, pp. 3-28.
G. Henzen – I.B. De Rossi – E. Bormann, C. Huelsen, M. Bang et al., CIL VI/ Inscriptiones urbis Romae Latinae (37859a), Berlin, 1876-.
