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D[IS] M[ANIBVS]
M[ARCO] MARIO CEL
SO MAN[IPVLARI EX] III ATHE
NONICE NAT[O] BESS[ICO]
VIX[IT] ANN[IS] XLV MIL[ITAVIT]
ANN[IS] XXVII L[VCIVS] VA
LERIVS BVCCI
MEREN[TI] FECIT

Translation

FOR MARCUS MARIUS CELSUS,
A MARINE ON THE TRIREMEā€¦

Description

Funerary epitaph for Marcus Marius Celsus, a Thracian seaman in the Misenum naval fleet

Italy, AD 1-400

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

NMR.1097

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