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Slab with inscription
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Slab with inscription

Marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Rome
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. 49915

This inscription commemorates the activity carried out by a freedman in the Horti Sallustiani, which occupied the eastern side of the Pincian hill. The Horti were first the property of the historian Sallustius, then of the Emperor Tiberius.