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Sellia cinerary urn (I century A.D.)

Ovoid marmorea urn with conical cap, with two inscriptions incised at different times, as can be seen from the graphic differences between the two. The text on the pendant would say that the remains preserved in the urn belonged to a Q. Futius Olympicus. In a subsequent moment, died the mother Sellia Epyre, owner of a laboratory sartoriale on Sacra via in which were confezionavano tessuti decorati con filo d'oro, the name of the woman and her qualification were added on the cover and her ceneri probably mescolate to those of the spouse. For the provenance of the urn, currently unknown, it is proposed the columbarium III of Vigna Codini on via Appia, which has restored an inscription on a marble slab in which the same woman appears as the owner of a loculus.

CIL, VI 9214, cf. pp. 3469, 3895.

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