Funerary gravestone commissioned by testamentary obligation

Gravestone in limestone darker and smoother than lioz. Located, in the early 20th century, embedded in façade of chapel of São Julião, vertical, truncated and worn out along 2 inch-strip on its right side, resulting in lack of the first letters from each of its five lines.
Its present whereabouts is unknown. The record from the time of discovery indicates it was quite archaic, with a simple epitaph that didn't mention kinship or affinity between testator and executor of will. The punctuation is round and only the necessary.
In the first line, the engraved
nomen
of the deceased may have been MASCELLIO. Before the name there may have been the initial of the
praenomen
, if there was one. In the second line, the initial of his father's
praenomen
is missing. The name Rufus, of the executor of the testamentary obligation, is quite common and also recorded in an epigraph from Louriceira.

Type of inscription

Funerary

Language

Latin

Technique

Engraving

Reading

[... M]ASCELLIO / [...] F(ilio) . SEVERO / [...]IVS RVFVS / [EX TE]STAMENTO / [F(aciendum) .] C(uravit).

Translation

To (...) Mascellio Severus, son of (...), (...) Rufus, by testamentary obligation, commissioned (this monument).

Present location

Unknown

Suggested reading

Belo, A. R. (1952) - Nótulas sobre arqueologia de Torres Vedras e seu termo: V - Epigrafia Luso-Romana. Badaladas. Torres Vedras: Fábrica da Igreja Paroquial de São Pedro e Santiago. 51: 01-04-1952, p. 2.

Guerra, A. (2004) - Uma perspectiva sobre a epigrafia funerária latina da região de Torres Vedras. Turres Veteras - História da Morte. Torres Vedras: Câmara Municipal de Torres Vedras - Instituto Alexandre Herculano. VI, p. 70.

Mantas, V. G. (1982) - Inscrições romanas do Museu Municipal de Torres Vedras. Conimbriga. Coimbra: Instituto de Arqueologia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. XXI, p. 78.

Identification code​

LxRomana1113010