Sepulchral stone top in the shape of a pinecone. The top part of the body is in the shape of a pinnacle on a support decorated with a double crown of acanthus leaves, which turns around its circular base. The inscription on the base bears the sole name of the deceased, a free-born spondent of the Magulnia people. It is one of the most characteristic funerary markers, belonging to mass graves, amply documented, between the IV and II century BC, in the necropolis of Colombella, the most important burial area of the Lazial city of Praeneste, near Palestrina.

Dimensions: 31 (height) x 15,5 (diameter) cm; lettering 1,8 cm; calcare.

Palestrina, found in the necropolis in contrada Colombella, on the occasion of excavations carried out in the tenuta dei principi Barberini, at the end of via della Marcigliana (1855) (from the Museo Kircheriano).

URI: http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?id_nr=EDR109823

Testo: Carlotta Caruso, Antonella Ferraro.