Combe, Taylor [Editor]: A description of the collection of ancient Marbles in the British Museum: with engravings (Band 5) ([S.l.], 1826)

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The lid is modern. This urn was purchased by Mr. Towneley
at Rome, in the year 1774.

Height, including the top, 17^ inches.

PLATE VIII. Fig. 2.

[A fragment of a testamentary inscription, cut from a sepulchral
cippus, found in the Villa Pellucchi, near the Pincian gate of Rome,
1776. The remains of the inscription are as follows :

....... : VCVIVS

.....MONIMENTI . RELIQVI

. . . . M QVE SVARVM . CVLTVRAM

. I LIBERTIS . LIBERTABVS
. . . "VIS . VSVM . FRVCTVM INSULAE
. ALATIANAE. PARTIS QVARTAE.ET
QVARTAE . ET . VICENSIMAE QVAE IVRIS
SVI ESSET . ITA VT EX REDITV EIVS . INSU
LAE. QVOD ANNIS DIE . NATAEIS SVI . ET
ROSATIONIS ET . VIOLAE . ET . PARENTALIB.
MEMORIAM . SVI. S ACRIFICIS . QVATER.IN. AN
NVM. FACTIS . CELEBRENT . ET . PRAETEREA . OMNIB K.
NONIS . IDIBVS . SVIS . QVIBVSQ MENSIB LVCERNA .
LVCENS . SIBI . PONATVR . INCENSO . INPOSITO.

From what remains of this inscription, we learn that the testator
bequeathed to his freedmen and freedwomen the usufruct, or pro-
duce of certain property, probably a cluster of houses, in some part
of Rome, " in order that from the rent of such property, annually
upon the day of his birth, and of roses and violets, and upon his
parentalia, they may celebrate his memory by sacrifices j)erformed
four times in every year ; and that, besides this, upon all his kalends