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Courtesy of The Speed Art Museum

The most poignant of these ancient Roman artifacts are the inscribed epitaphs that convey the pain of grieving parents. The one shown reads, “To the spirits of the underworld/ Passerius Agathopus and Acie, parents,/ (Dedicated this) to their sweetest son,/ Quintus Passerius Agathopus,/ Who lived 7 years, 11 months, 22 days.”