

TOMB 42 (continuation)



Above the entrance is a marble plate with the

following inscription in small, irregular characters:

C(aius) IVLIVS FELIXS ET IVLIA ASIA

FECERVNT SIBI ET LIBERIS SVIS

LIBERTIS LIBE[RTAB]VSQVE [POS]

TERISQV[E EORV]M H(oc) M(omumentum) E(xterum) H(eredem) [N(on) S(equetur)]

According to this inscription Caius Iulius Felix and Iulia Asia made this grave for themselves and for their children, their freed slaves,

and the descendants. The tomb could not be inherited by strangers.



During the excavations the following graffito has been found in the white stucco

of the ceiling in front of the entrance of the lower burial chamber:

ego memini quenda(m) crissasse puellam

cuius cineres aurea terra tegat

"I remember touching the buttocks of a certain girl, whose ashes covers the golden earth".



Unfortunately the graffito does not exist anymore.