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…in his lifetime for himself and for his freedmen and freedwomen and for their descendants. Therefore if after our death anyone shall wish to sell or shall wish to give, he shall pay 100,000 sesterces to the pontifices’ treasury. This monument will not follow the heirs.
The beginning of the inscription has been lost; its extant part begins with threatening a large fine, to be paid to the pontifices, in the event of the tomb property being sold at a later date. Such a payment to the treasury of the pontifices suggests a date from the mid-second century or later (Mommsen 1887-1888: p.70). The large sum is rather unexpected, perhaps, on an inscription whose quality of carving and literacy are somewhat questionable. See also commentary on C3-18, C3-39 for other concerns about heirs not upkeeping a tomb properly (HMHNS), and for other threats of fines (overview in Gregori 2004: pp.391-404).
Sirmond MS. BNF Paris suppl. Lat. 1419 = Lat. 10808, no. 270; Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 f.42’ (added on to end of C3-24, in error); Doni BN Naples, MS G.XII.75 fol.355, no.4 (repeats the same error); Doni Lat. Barb. 2756 f.156; Prideaux (1676) p.148, no.115; Fabretti (1702) p.92 no.190 (following Barberini schedae); Maittaire (1732) p.40, no.93 + 562; Chandler (1763) p.133, no.27; CIL VI.4.fasc.1 no. 29925 [Hübner] (1894)