TOMB 42 (continuation)

Above the entrance there is a marble plate with the
following inscription in small, irregular characters:

                     C . IVLIVS FELIXS ET IVLIA ASIA
                     FECERVNT SIBI ET LIBERIS SVIS
                     LIBERTIS LIBE [RTAB]VSQVE [POS]
                     TERISQV[E EORVM . H . M . H . E .
                                                                     N . S

According to this inscription Caius Iulius Felix and Iulia Asia have made this grave for themselves and for their children, their freedmen
with their heirs. The tomb could not be inherited by strangers.

During the excavations the following graffito has been found in the white stucco
of the ceiling in front of the entrance of the lower burial chamber:

                    ego memini quenda[m] crissasse puella[m]
                    cuius cineres aurea terra tegat

I remember touching the buttocks of a certain girl, whose ashes covers the golden earth".

Unfortunately the graffito does not exist anymore.

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