Epitaph for
Passeria Romula, daughter of
Lucius, aged four. Unusually, the funerary text begins with the greeting '
have' (hail or greetings) in an attempt to provoke a dialogue between the dead and the living, seeking to attract the attention of the living to visit the
necropolis and guarantee that
Romula's brief earthly passage become engraved in the collective and anonymous memory. The text is engraved upon a plaque found during the 1961-62 archaeological campaign and would have originally been placed upon another funerary monument.