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Rufio Tableware
Cloaca Maxima
Mosaic of the Muses
Pipeline
Camilo
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Antefia
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Wrist
Jug
glass ointment
Lantern
Stone
capital
Rufio Tableware

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Roman epigraphic inscription on an alabaster slab. Only a part is preserved, about a third of the total. The slab used as a support for the writing is rough, not polished, so the surface on which the letters have been engraved is rough and their reading is complex. The semantic field is framed by a deep furrow that delimits it. The text has no interpuncture, the letters are capital letters (3.5 to 4.5 cm high), irregular and roughly made, and the words are not segmented into different lines.

The text is engraved with a deep groove, possibly with a square or semicircular chisel or punch. Words that are readable and parsed are scarce. The metric analysis indicates that it is a Carmina Latina Epigraphica, a poetry written in 14 lines, with dactylic metrics: a rhythmic modality of ancient poetry that is based on repeating sequences that combine long and short syllables. The function of this inscription is imprecise; it could have had a funerary character, perhaps an epitaph or a reminder linked to a monumental building context.


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