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Monumentum sive columbarium libertorum et servorum Liviae Augustae et Caesarum : Romae detectum in Via Appia, anno M.D.CC.XXVI.

Gori, Antonio Francesco, 1691-1757, Salvini, Anton Maria, 1653-1729, Dempster, Thomas, 1579?-1625 · 1727 · Florentiae : Typis Regiae Celsitudinis, apud Tartinium & Franchium · 192 pictures

An antiquarian folio by Antonio Francesco Gori, printed in Florence in 1727 for scholars of Roman epigraphy, recording the columbarium of the freedmen and slaves of Livia Augusta found on the Via Appia in 1726. Engraved plates reproduce hundreds of Latin grave inscriptions in ruled and moulded frames, offering incised capital lettering, interpuncts, plaque borders and hatched stone edges.

Inscriptions, Latin · Tombs · Freedmen · Slavery

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