Elia Vincentia, who lived ... years and two months, and lived with Virginius a year and a day.

Most of the early epitaphs are of touching brevity and simplicity. Frequently only a single word, the name given in baptism, is recorded on the tomb, as in [Fig. 127], which exhibits also the Christian symbols of the monogram, cross, and palm.

Fig. 127.—“Cassta." (sic.)

In [Fig. 128] the names of three individuals appear on the same slab, which is recognizable as Christian only by the symbol of the Good Shepherd:

Fig. 128.—“Septimina, Aurelius, Galymedes.”