224

The British School at Rome.

is a relief, depicting a slave standing to the spectator's left, and a couch (on
which the dead man was represented as reclining) to the right.


EQ SING-AVG)
PANNO^
GERMANIY

The late Henry Stevenson (see his MS. notes, now in the Vatican,
f. 14) copied another fragment in the Vigna Marescotti Colombo, which
runs thus:

sic

BATAVST
FL• LEGTV
AMICO
FAC C

Many other sepulchral inscriptions have been found in the neigh-
bouring vineyards. Most of these are in C.I.L. vi. or Kaibel's Inscriptiones
Graecae Italiae, but a few unimportant fragments have not apparently
been noticed. The recensus locorum recentiorum of C.I.L. xiv. at times
gives the numbers of the inscriptions published in C.I.L. vi. incorrectly,
and is not always complete. Some unimportant discoveries made by
Mgr. Ludovico Altieri in the tenuta of Torre Pignattara in 1830 are
recorded in Bull. Inst. 1832, 4.
Fabretti (Be Aquis, p. 30) states that a road diverging to the right
just after Torre Pignattara, passing west of the Mausoleum of Alexander
Severus (Monte del Grano) and falling finally into the Via Latina, was
still traceable in his day. It is possible, however, that he is mistaken
as he certainly got the idea of its existence from a probably false
reading in Frontinus (i. 21), Anio vetus citra iv milliarium, qua a Latina in