DRAFT

Tomb garden of T. Vettius Hermes

Author: Annalisa Marzano

Contributor: Zhenrui Mei

Permalink: https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/id/fe223e8769/

Published: 2021-04-21

Modified: 2025-06-29

Location

Sublocation

Region IX

Garden

Tomb garden of T. Vettius Hermes

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Garden Description

A marble stele now in a church at Grazzano records the epitaph of T. Vettius Hermes, a freedman ointment dealer (seplasiarius). After a gnomic sentiment about chthonic birthand reunion (mater genuit materq(ue) recepiit), Hermes goes on to declare that "these gardens, as great and excellent as they are, (will) serve my ashes, for I shall appoint caretakers to dine on the proceeds from them on my birthday and on the day of roses, in perpetuity" (hi horti ita uti o(ptimi) m(aximi)/que sunt cineribus seruite(!) meis nam curatores substituam uti uescantur ex horum hortorum reditu natale meo et per rosam in perpetuo).

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