TOMB 66
Tomb 66 is a tomb "a cassone". The little grave
has been built against the back wall of tomb 78.
On the side turned towards the sea was a marble slab of 18 x 27
centimetres with the following inscription, written with irregular
characters:
D(is) M(anibus)
CAECILIA MAXIMA
SOCRATE FILIO ET
NEPOTI FECIT EX
SVBSTANTIA AVRE
LIAES
The text says that Caecilia Maxima had built
the tomb for Socrates,
son and grandson, paid from the fortune of Aurelia.
Probably Socrates was the son of Caecilia Maxima and the grandson
of Aurelia.
Tomb
66 dates back to the time of
Hadrian or Antoninus Pius.
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