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'Tombstone'. View of the back © Ministerio de Cultura
'Tombstone'. Detail of the orifices © Ministerio de Cultura
'Tombstone'. View of the back © Ministerio de Cultura
'Tombstone'. Detail of metal remains © Ministerio de Cultura

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Rites, worship and beliefs

Date

1st century A.D.

Cultural background

Roman

Original title

Lápida

National Museum of Roman Art
Mérida
Badajoz, Extremadura

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This type of large tombstone was in the past found attached to funerary monuments in which one or more people were buried.

This rectangular tombstone has three broken corners and conserves the four complete lines of the inscription. It was found in the eastern necropolis above the door of a columbaria (a group of niches where funeral urns were placed) of a family of prosperous freed slaves. The piece refers to 'C Iulius Felix, freeman of de C(aius) and of Quinta Caecilia Mauriola, freewoman of Caecilia'. At the end, added at a later date, appears the name of another person –C Iulius Modestus, aged 27–, who was probably the son of these two individuals.