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SEPULCHRAL RELIEFS.
289
Amelia L. I. Philematio.
Viva Pliilematium sum Amelia nominitata,
Casta, pudens, volgei nescia, feida viro.
Vir conleibertus fuit eidem, quo careo elieu I
Bee fuit ee vero plus superaque parens.
Septem me naatam annorum gremio ipse recepit,
xxxx annos nata necis potio\_r'\
llle meo officio adsiduo florebat ad o[mm's]. . .
The opening is a correction by Fabretti for the impos-
sible restoration added early in the seventeenth century
and recently removed from the stone, which ran [Au~]relius
L. l.\\_Fil]ermia\[_En~\nius, etc. 1st cent. b.c.—Borne. Blacas
Coll,
Italian marble. Height of slab, 1 foot 11 inches; width, 3 feet
5 inches. For restorations see above. The relief was found
about 1593 in a tomb in the Via s. Agnese fuori le Mura, or
Via Nomentana. So Cittadini, Trattato dell' origine della nostra
lingua (1601), fo. 29 ; Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 18,399, fo. 38 ; " via
antiqua Nomentana repertum,in Maio 1592, prope muros, in vinea
N. Martellae." Cf. Ann. dell' Inst., 1865, p. 311; afterwards in
the Giardino de' Vecchi in Trastevere. Engraved Fabretti, Tnscr.
Antiquarum Explicatio, p. 421, No. 388; Montfaucon, L'Ant.
Explique'e, V., Suppt., pi. 33 (misnumbered 34). For the
Inscription, see Gruter, p. MXLVL, No. 6 ; C.I.L., I., 1011 ; VI.,
9499 (and lit. there quoted); Mommsen, Ann. dell' Inst., 1865,
p. 308, pi. r; Buecheler, Anthol. latina, II., No 959. For the
variant Philematio, cf. C.I.L., I., 1180.
2275. Eelief with portraits of Antistius Sarculo, and Antistia
Plutia, erected by two of their freedmen. Within a
moulded frame are two deeply sunk circular recesses,
containing medallion portrait busts in high relief. On
the left is the bust of an old man, with scanty hair, thin
cheeks, firmly shut mouth, and marked individuality. On
the right is the bust of an elderly woman, also of marked
character. Her hair is brought back over the ears, and
up from the back to the top of the head, in the fashion of
vol. in. u
289
Amelia L. I. Philematio.
Viva Pliilematium sum Amelia nominitata,
Casta, pudens, volgei nescia, feida viro.
Vir conleibertus fuit eidem, quo careo elieu I
Bee fuit ee vero plus superaque parens.
Septem me naatam annorum gremio ipse recepit,
xxxx annos nata necis potio\_r'\
llle meo officio adsiduo florebat ad o[mm's]. . .
The opening is a correction by Fabretti for the impos-
sible restoration added early in the seventeenth century
and recently removed from the stone, which ran [Au~]relius
L. l.\\_Fil]ermia\[_En~\nius, etc. 1st cent. b.c.—Borne. Blacas
Coll,
Italian marble. Height of slab, 1 foot 11 inches; width, 3 feet
5 inches. For restorations see above. The relief was found
about 1593 in a tomb in the Via s. Agnese fuori le Mura, or
Via Nomentana. So Cittadini, Trattato dell' origine della nostra
lingua (1601), fo. 29 ; Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 18,399, fo. 38 ; " via
antiqua Nomentana repertum,in Maio 1592, prope muros, in vinea
N. Martellae." Cf. Ann. dell' Inst., 1865, p. 311; afterwards in
the Giardino de' Vecchi in Trastevere. Engraved Fabretti, Tnscr.
Antiquarum Explicatio, p. 421, No. 388; Montfaucon, L'Ant.
Explique'e, V., Suppt., pi. 33 (misnumbered 34). For the
Inscription, see Gruter, p. MXLVL, No. 6 ; C.I.L., I., 1011 ; VI.,
9499 (and lit. there quoted); Mommsen, Ann. dell' Inst., 1865,
p. 308, pi. r; Buecheler, Anthol. latina, II., No 959. For the
variant Philematio, cf. C.I.L., I., 1180.
2275. Eelief with portraits of Antistius Sarculo, and Antistia
Plutia, erected by two of their freedmen. Within a
moulded frame are two deeply sunk circular recesses,
containing medallion portrait busts in high relief. On
the left is the bust of an old man, with scanty hair, thin
cheeks, firmly shut mouth, and marked individuality. On
the right is the bust of an elderly woman, also of marked
character. Her hair is brought back over the ears, and
up from the back to the top of the head, in the fashion of
vol. in. u