romegreeceart:Baths of Diocletian - A mother’s sorrow“A sepulchral slab dedicated to Octavia Arbuscu
romegreeceart:Baths of Diocletian - A mother’s sorrow“A sepulchral slab dedicated to Octavia Arbuscula by her mother Tuccia Urbana. Her daughter had lived twenty-three years and ten months. The text contains in the upper part the dedication, in the lower part a poem engraved on two writing columns. In the deceaced’s composition, after recording her young age, it turns offering words of consolation to her parents and sister and above all it asks her mother not to torment herself for the rest of her days crying for her sorrow because it did not only happen to her but even to great kings.” (museum info card)Given her young age, it’squite possible that she died in childbirth. At least I’ve undestood that maternal death rate in childbirth was rather high in ancient Rome. Rome, June 2015Ok, a repost, but I wanted to share the photo again….(shedding tears once again) -- source link
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