D[IS] M[ANIBVS]
C[AIO] IVLIO RESO MANIP[VLARI]
EX III FIDE NAT[O] BESS[ICO]
BIXIT AN[NIS] LV MILIT[AVIT] A[NNIS] XII
M[ARCVS] RVFINVS AVCTVS
HERES B[ENE] M[ERTENTI] F[ECIT]
Translation
FOR GAIUS IULIUS RESUS,
A MARINE ON THE TRIREME FIDES.
HE WAS BORN IN THRACE.
HE LIVED FOR 55 YEARS AND SERVED FOR 12.
A WELL-DESERVING MAN.
HIS HEIR, MARCUS RUFINUS AUCTUS,
HAD THIS MADE FOR HIM.
SOLEMNLY DEDICATED TO
THE SPIRITS OF THE DEPARTED
Description
Funerary epitaph for Gaius Julius Resus, a Thracian seaman in the Misenum naval fleet
Italy, AD 1-400
acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson probably from the priest Giuseppe de Criscio, in Pozzuoli Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860
NMR.1084
