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A stone tablet, apparently of marble, now disappeared but certainly extant up to November 3, 2003 (of which these photos are proof). The stone had been recently used as head top for a watering fountain in Pratola countryside (Tressanti locality in Montecalvo Irpino territory). Its dimensions were 40x60 cm. and had engraved on its surface the following Latin epigraph (which doesn’t appear as having been reported to the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum – C.I.L. ) : “GAVOLEIAE . P . F . R(VFAE) O . SEPPIO . Q . F . RVFO EX . TESTAMENTO ARBITRATV CRITTIAE . M . F . POLLAE”, approximately, in English : “After the death of Quintus Fabius Rufus Seppius, (this thing upon which can be read this epigraph) belongs to Gavoleia(?) Rufa, pia foemina, in consequence of a will and a (subsequent) arbitration of Crizia Pauline, mater familiae.” This was the only epigraph not funeral in meaning which could be found in proximity of a Roman ager (a portion of land assigned for colonization) probably urbanized during or soon after Cornelius Sulla’s dictatorship (I century B.C.), in Pratola countryside - Tressanti locality. (see Sect. n° ) |
