Funerary inscription of a young boy, Marcus Valerius Laos

"To the Shades of the Underworld: to Marcus Valerius Laos, who [was] also [called] Africanus, dearest son and most dutiful to me beyond other loved ones, who lived for six years, seven days, and three hours. Aurelia Lais, [his] mother, made [this] for her most-beloved, well-deserving son." Latin: D(is) M(anibus) / M(arco) Val(erio) Laoti cui / et Africano filio / dulcissimo ac su / per ceteros karos / mihi piisimo qui / vixit ann(is) VI d(iebus) VII / (h)oris III Aurelia Lais mater / filio karissimo b(ene) m(erenti) f(ecit)

Funerary inscription for Marcus Valerius Laos, who went by the nickname ‘Africanus’. Marcus grew up in Puteoli, a port town in Italy, but his nickname suggests that his family moved there around the time of his birth from the Roman province of Africa. Marcus was only six years old when he died. 

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