D[IS] M[ANIBUS] HERMETI
VERNAE VIXIT AN
NIS XVIIII VALERIVS
CLEME[N]S ARMOR
VM CVSTOS III
MERCVRI B[ENE] M[ERENTI] F[ECIT]
Translation
FOR HERMES,
A SLAVE BORN IN HIS MASTER’S HOUSEHOLD.
HE LIVED FOR 19 YEARS.
VALERIUS CLEMENS, KEEPER OF THE WEAPONS
ON THE TRIREME MERCURY,
HAD THIS MADE FOR
A WELL-DESERVING RECIPIENT.
SOLEMNLY DEDICATED TO
THE SPIRITS OF THE DEPARTED.
Description
Funerary epitaph for Hermes, a slave
Italy, AD 100-300, found near Naples before 1857
acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson probably from the priest Giuseppe de Criscio, in Pozzuoli Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860
NMR.1098
