D[IS] M[ANIBVS]
FELICITATI ALVMNAE DVL
CISSIMAE QVAE VIX[IT] ANN[IS]
III MENS[IBVS] VII D[IEBVS] XXII HOR[IS] VIII
PROCESSVS ET DAPHNE
B[ENE] M[ERENTI] FECERVNT
Translation
FOR FELICITY,
OUR SWEETEST FOSTER CHILD,
WHO LIVED FOR 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS,
22 DAYS AND 8 HOURS.
A WELL-DESERVING CHILD.
PROCESSUS AND DAPHNE
HAD THIS MADE FOR HER.
SOLEMNLY DEDICATED TO
THE SPIRITS OF THE DEPARTED.
Description
Funerary epitaph for Felicity, an infant
Italy, AD 1-400, found in a columbarium at Misenum, before 1857
acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson probably from the priest Giuseppe de Criscio, in Pozzuoli Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860
NMR.1120
