Di Manes, m. pl.
the spirits of the dead, the divine spirits; this phrase in the dative is regularly found at the head of tombstone inscriptions.

Minucia Suavis f.
The name of the dead girl is in the genitive case (it is usually found in the dative on inscriptions). During the Republic women usually had a single name, the feminine version of the paternal family (e.g., Gaius Julius Caesar's daughter was named simply Julia). Minucius is the gens name of an old Roman family, which the deceased may have inherited from a freedwoman mother.

Publius, -i m.
the praenomen; Sextilius = the nomen or gens name; Campanus = the cognomen, which identified a particular branch of a family and was often an identifying feature of the first member of the family to bear it. His relationship to Minucia Suavis as husband is marked by the genitive case.

annus, -i, m.
this is the ablative of extent of time with definite numbers (also mensibus and diebus), a rare construction until the Augustan period.

Tiberius, -i m.
his name, Tiberius Claudius, may indicate that his father or grandfather was a former member of the Imperial household.

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