Roman marble funerary inscription from the Arundel Collection
ANChandler 3.29, from Rome, AD 10-60: Caecilia Irena, freed by a woman, set this up for herself and for Caecilia Euposia, freedwoman of Quintus, and for Caecilia Macaria, a freedwoman, and for Quintus Minucius Salvittonus, a freedman of Quintus, and for Gaius Julius Tyrannus, a freedman of Gaius, and for her own freedmen and freedwomen and for their descendants.
She did this in her lifetime.
Collected in the early 1600s and owned by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646). Given to the University of Oxford in 1667 by Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk. On display in the Story of the Ashmolean Gallery in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Photogrammetry by Dr Alison Pollard and Richard Allen. Text by Dr Alison Pollard, University of Oxford.
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