DIS MANIBVS
Q[VINTI] MVCI
PRIMIGENI
Translation
THIS IS THE RESTING PLACE OF QUINTUS MUCUS,
OUR FIRST BORN.
SOLEMNLY DEDICATED TO THE SPIRITS
OF THE DEPARTED.
Description
The central inscription is decorated with two birds perched on a fruiting garland suspended between the horns of two Satyr heads. Below the heads looking back at the inscription perch two eagles, their wings slightly outstretched.
Funerary urn for the ashes of Quintus Mucus
Italy, AD 200-400
acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson in Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860
NMR.1016