51 CIL 6.7671

This inscription dedicated to three friends was found in a columbaria along the Via Appia outside Rome.

Text

Agrilia Piste, quae et / Pompusidia, f(ecit) Valeriae / Trophime et Vi(ct)toriae / Erotario et Muciae / Ianuariae amicabus / optimis, et sibi et / posterisq(ue) eorum.

Commentariolum

1 quae et / Pompusidia: quae et [am vocātur] “Pompusidia”.

2-3 Don’t let the line breaks overwhelm your reading; there are three friends to whom the inscription is dedicated, carefully linked by two et’s.

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