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Tomb of Trevellena Flaccilla
 

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Tomb of Trebellena Flaccilla (Tomb T)

From: 'Guide to the Vatican Necropolis' by Michele Basso, Fabbrica di S. Pietro

Tomb T contains evidence of some cineraria, as well as interments. There are some finely decorated niches with images of birds and flowers; the niches are separated by small stucco columns on a brightly-coloured background. There are some picturesque details, such as a dolphin wound round a trident and a vase between two doves.

In a cinerarium inscribed "Trebellenae Flaccilae Valeria Taecina Matri dulcissimae fecit" was found a small bronze coin of the early Constantinian era with the inscription "Soli invicto comiti"; it can easily be traced to the Maxentian age.

 


Sources
Michele Basso. Guide to the Vatican Necropolis, Fabbrica di S. Pietro in Vaticano, 1986

Margherita Guarducci, The Tomb of St Peter, Hawthorn Books, 1960
John Evangelist Walsh, The Bones of St Peter, New York, 1982
Toynbee and Perkins. The Shrine of St Peter and the Vatican Excavations, London 1956
P. Zander. The Vatican Necropolis, in "Roma Sacra", 25, Roma 2003

 

 

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