TOMB 16 (continuation)Tek


Above the entrance of the enclosure there was an inscription on a marble slab which gives us more information about this tomb:

  ET SENTIO D(is) STATIANO M(anibus) ALVMNO SVO
PVBLIVS CORNELIVS FORTVNATVS
TERENTIO BITALINI ET SENTIAE LAIDI
ME DONAVI SARCOFAGA N(umero) XII IN QIBVS TRIA
DEBET FACERE SVIS INPENDIS CVNDISSERO
PARTE DESTRA BIA FLABIA DATA CLABE ET DO
NATA ESSE BOLO QE SVPRA ISCRITA SVN[T]
ET AB EREDE MEV LIBERTI LIBERTABVSQ(ue)

 

Publius Cornelius Fortunatus gave to Terentius Vitalinus, to his Sentia Lais and to Sentius Statianus, his foster-son and heir of the founder, his freed slaves and their descendants,
12 sarcophagi. Three of them shall be paid for by Terentius Vitalinus, after he has received the key of the tomb on the right side of the via Flavia.
(The first and the eighth line were added later. Because of a lack of space, text was added around the D and the M of Dis Manibus).

It is often stated that the Via Severiana was called Via Flavia since the time of Constantine. It is also possible that the road was never called Via Severiana, but Via Flavia since the late first century AD.


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