Faceless Names

CHAU CHAK WING MUSEUM EXHIBITION

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NMR.1113

LAELIA M[ARCI] F[ILIA]
PRISCILLA VIXIT
ANN[IS] XXIII

Translation

THIS IS LAELIA PRISCILLA,
MARCUS’ DAUGHTER.
SHE LIVED FOR 23 YEARS.

Description

Funerary epitaph for Laelia Priscilla, a young woman

Italy, AD 200-225, found in a tomb on the Via Cumana near Pozzuoli, before 1857

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

NMR.1113