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Funerary Inscription for Minucia Suavis CIL 6.22560

minucia  

This marble monument dates from 50-75 CE and is presently displayed in the Baths of Diocletian in Rome. Its size, delicate portrait head, and full text are signs of its expense and the great affection and sorrow of the donor. It is a memorial to a young girl who, despite her brief life, was already married and may well have died in childbirth, a frequent result of early marriage and teenage pregnancy in ancient Rome.

   

tomb inscription
 
DIIS MANIBUS
MINUCIAE SUAVIS
P[ubli] SEXTILI CAMPANI
VIXIT ANNIS XIIII MENS[ibus] VIII
DIEBUS XXIII FECIT
TI[berius] CLAUDIUS SUAVIS
PATER PIISSIMUS

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Ann R. Raia and Judith Lynn Sebesta
Return to The World of Childhood
February 2006