Bertolini is the only one who performed an autopsy of the monument: Mommsen reports his version in the CIL (CIL V 8692). The inscription is intact and lacks further additions (Bertolini 1876b, 132.).
Note the proximity of this inscription to another sarcophagus belonging to another member of the gens Fabia, Quintus Fabius Fabianus, and to a fragment of an early imperial inscription, also belonging to another Fabius (CIL V 8693). It is impossible to date the inscription based on onomastic and paleographic criteria.
However, thanks to Bertolini, it appears that this inscription was found at a lower level than the other burials (Bertolini 1876b, 132; Bertolini 1877, 30). The inscription of Paulina was likely contemporary with the burials of Fabianus and Firmina, and can therefore be dated to the first half of the 3rd century AD.
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Bertolini is the only one who performed an autopsy of the monument: Mommsen reports his version in the CIL (CIL V 8692). The inscription is intact and lacks further additions (Bertolini 1876b, 132.).
Note the proximity of this inscription to another sarcophagus belonging to another member of the gens Fabia, Quintus Fabius Fabianus, and to a fragment of an early imperial inscription, also belonging to another Fabius (CIL V 8693). It is impossible to date the inscription based on onomastic and paleographic criteria.
However, thanks to Bertolini, it appears that this inscription was found at a lower level than the other burials (Bertolini 1876b, 132; Bertolini 1877, 30). The inscription of Paulina was likely contemporary with the burials of Fabianus and Firmina, and can therefore be dated to the first half of the 3rd century AD.