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of the Freedmen and Slaves of Livia Augusta. 



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the person, whose ashes 



enclosed in the urn, were designated 



and often for the prevention of mistake, the number and position 



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of the niche accurately designated. In the royal museum, at 

 Dresden, the apartment devoted to the reception of cinerary urns 



and other sepulchral antiquities^ is fitted up so as to imitate the in- 

 terioi^ of an ancient Columbarium ; — with this important difference, 

 however, necessarily resulting perhaps from the nature of a muse- 



place of display 



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that the /? 



the niches are 



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left open^ thus. exposing the urns to view ; whereas in antiquity they 

 were closed, all but an aperture large enough to pour the ashes 

 through, from the principle^ that ran alike through all their institu- 



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tions and manners, of avoiding, as much as possible, the sight or 

 the name of death. 



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The inscription, to which I wish at present to call the attention 

 of the Academy, is on a tablet of fine white marble, 17^^ inches 

 long and 6 high. 



The inscriDtion consists of thre 



ly well cut ; the letters, in the 



being nearly an inch and 



a half in height, those in the second and third line something less 



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It is as follows ; 



DIONYSIUS. LIVIAE. 



ROGATOR. DECURIO. 

 C. JULIUS C. ET. SPONSAE. L. FELIX. 



That is, Dionysius LivisB Rogaton/;/? Decurio, Caius Julius, Qaii et 



Sponsse Libert us, Felix. 



Tlicre are one or two points, in this inscription, which require 

 illustration. The first is the office, which the individual is said 



filled, D 



of the Rogators of Livia 



of Rogator was does not appear, 



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What the office 

 other inscrip- 



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