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Livy. 1745. 'The Roman history / by Titus Livius : with the entire supplement of John Freinsheim : translated into English, and illustrated with geographical and chronological notes', Volume 4. London: Printed for T. Osbourne.

Addison, Joseph. 1753. 'Remarks on several parts of Italy: & c. in the years 1701, 1703.' London: printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper.

Kennett, Basil. 1785. 'Romae antiquae notitia, or, The antiquities of Rome : In two parts. I, A short history of the rise, progress and decay of the Commonwealth. II, A description of the city: an account of the religion, civil government, and Art of…

Hamilton, William Richard. 1809. 'Remarks on several parts of Turkey. Part I. Ægyptiaca, or, Some account of the antient and modern state of Egypt, as obtained in the years 1801, 1802 / By William Hamilton. Accompanied with etchings, from original…

Single ivy leaves adorn the end of the first and last lines. The second iota in the first name is clearly cut as a lamda, perhaps due to a carelessly written original to be followed by the stone cutter; the transliteration of the other letters in the…

Transcribed from Trendall 1948:
Found near a monument in the Vigna Codini, between the Via Appia and the Via Latina; excavated by J.P. Campana in 1840. Formerly in Guidi s collection. CIL, vi, 5091; Visc., vi. Fig. 103f.

The monument near which…

A rectangular limestone memorial tablet inscribed with five lines of Greek.

Translation:
Epagathus
good
and blameless
farewell
He lived 70 years

The single name and record of lifespan are features typically found in Christian epitaphs,…

Description:
A small upright rectangular headstone with a rounded top, decorated with a relief carving of the goddess Diana as a huntress accompanied by a hound. The relief scene is framed by a flat border, c.20 mm wide, and set into the surface of…

A small rectangular marble memorial tablet with this inscription finely carved in capital letters or scriptura monumentalis.
The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum entry for this piece notes that it was discovered in Rome in 1733 by the antiquary…

A black-figure eye-cup with decoration of Dionysus with maenads and satyrs, close to the Leafless Group. Dionysus sits between two eyes holding a rhyton and dressed in a himation decorated with red stripes and white rosettes. Vine tendrils surround…