CHAU CHAK WING MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Exhibition Artifacts

NMR.1095

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D[IS] M[ANIBVS]
M[ARCO] CAECILIO PRIMIONI
ET AIVTRICI CO[N]IVGI VIV[I]S F[ACIENDVM] C[VRAVIT]
CAECILIA TRIPHONA
FRATRI PRO PIAETATI
CONSACRATV[M]

Translation

FOR MARCUS CAECILIUS PRIMIO,
AND HIS WIFE AIUTRIX.
CAECILIA TRIPHONA ARRANGED
FOR THIS TO BE SET UP
WHILE THEY WERE STILL ALIVE,
TO PAY DUTIFUL RESPECT TO HER BROTHER.
SOLEMNLY DEDICATED TO
THE SPIRITS OF THE DEPARTED.

Description

Funerary epitaph for Marcus Caecilius Primio and Autrix, a married couple

Italy, AD 1-400, found at the Church of St Sebastian on the Via Ardeatina, Italy, before 1857

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

NMR.1095

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