Funerary pseudoaedicule stele of gens Pettia with wedding scene and marble-cutter’s tools depicted on the base.
The inscription reads: “Sibi Pettia Ge et / C(aio) Pettio C(ai) l(iberto) Pyiladi patro(no) / C(aio) Clodio C(ai) l(iberto) Antiocho marm(orario) / et Pettiae (mulieris) l(ibertae) Speratae / In fro(nte) p(edes) XII / Et Pe(tt)iae (mulieris) l(ibertae) Sice / In agr(o) p(edes) XV” (“Pettia Ge [set this monument up] for herself, for her patron Caius Pettius Pylades, freed by Caius, and for Caius Clodius Antiochus, freed by Caius, marmorarius. And for Pettia Sperata, freed by a woman. And for Pettia Sice, freed by a woman. [The size of the fenced plot is] 12 feet along the road and 15 feet in depth”).
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