CHAU CHAK WING MUSEUM EXHIBITION

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NMR.1118

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TI[BERIO] CLAUDIO A(VG)VSTI[IBERTO]
AMIANTHO S(T…)
VIXIT ANN[IS] XX(?)
EROS ET NATALIS FRA(TRES)
FRATRI FECERU(NT0)

Translation

FOR TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS AMIANTHUS,
A FREEDMAN OF THE EMPEROR.
HE LIVED FOR [20?] YEARS.
HIS BROTHERS EROS AND NATALIS
HAD THIS MADE FOR HIM.

Description

Funerary epitaph for Tiberius Claudius Amianthus, a freedman

Italy, AD 1-100, excavated by Giovanni Pietro Campana a Vigna Codini columbarium, Rome 1840

Formerly in the collection of Giambattista Guidi, acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson Rome, Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860

NMR.1118

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