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Plan, Roman Freedmen’s Funerary Estate

Plan, Roman Freedmen’s Funerary Estate



‎This first-century A.D. marble diagram details plans for memorial buildings and an ornamental garden in a funerary estate in Rome belonging to freed slaves. The inscription reads, “Claudia Peloris, freedwoman of [Emperor] Claudius’ daughter Octavia, and Tiberius Claudius Eutychus, [Emperor Nero’s] freedman and procurator, left the care of this … monument to their sisters and freedmen and freedwomen and their descendants.” Peloris and Eutychus apparently pleased their imperial patrons, who freed them and gave them money and property. Peloris and Eutychus owned—and freed—slaves.
‎Acts 6:9, 1 Cor 7:22

‎Image by Giovanni Dall’Orto, from Wikimedia Commons. License: Free use, attribution required

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