CHAU CHAK WING MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Exhibition Artifacts

NMR.1068

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PRIMIO
PVBLICVS V[IXIT] A[NNIS] VIIII
MENS[IBVS] III

Translation

FOR PRIMIUS.
HE LIVED FOR 9 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS.
PUBLICUS HAD THIS MADE.

Description

Funerary epitaph for Primius, a young boy

Italy, AD 1-400, found in the region of Cumae on the bay of Naples before 1857

acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson from the priest Giuseppe de Criscio, in Pozzuoli Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860

NMR.1068

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