TOMB 54 (continuation)

Above the entrance of the burial chamber the following inscription was attached:

                             D                    .                   M
                      ATTIA . PSYCHE . ET
                      C . ATTIVS . ALEXANDER . LIB
                      FECERVNT . SIBI . ET . SVIS . LIBERTIS
                      LIBERTABVSQVE . POSTERISQVE . EORUM
                      H . M . H . N . S . VENDENDI . CAVSA
                      FIDEIQVE . EORVM . COMMISSAE
                      NEQVE . FIDVCIARIVS . INTROIT . HAB
                      IN . FRONT . P . XVIII . IN . AGR . P . XXXVIII

click to enlarge photographBoth freedmen, Attia Psyche and C. Attius Alexander
have erected (this monument) for themselves
and for their heirs, for their joint freedmen
with their family. Also the use of the grave by
anyone else besides the family was forbidden,
not even when the grave was bought or inherited fiduciary.
The superficies measured 18 x 28 feet.


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