Tombstone IN 2

This tombstone commemorates a 15-year-old boy that once lived in or around ancient Carthage. The Latin inscription indicates that it dates from the period after the Romans rebuilt the city in the first century BC.

Tombstones like this one are important witnesses from ancient times. They can shed light on many aspects of a certain culture. This tombstone is one of the many objects from ancient Carthage in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands. Many of them were found or collected by Jean Emile Humbert, the Dutch archaeologist who discovered and excavated the site of ancient Carthage.