40 CIL 6.26467a 

This inscription from the 1st/2nd century CE, is now on display in the Ashmolean Museum. Lucius Sestius Sotericus erected the stone for his entire household, including his wife, Prisca, who only ever did one thing to vex him, as well as a friend, and many others.

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L(ucius) Sestius / Sotericus sibi / et Sestiae Priscae / collibertae et / coniugi suae bene / merenti, cum qua vixit annis XXX, / de qua nihil doluit / nisi morte / et T(ito) Titio Basso amico / suo, homini optimo / et singularis exsempli. / et libertis libertabusque / suis posterisque eoru(m). in fronte p(edes) XII in agro p(edes) XII

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