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• CAES(ura) followed by the name <strong>of</strong> the supervisor <strong>of</strong> the workers who cut the<br />

piece <strong>of</strong> marble;<br />

• OFF(icina) followed by the name <strong>of</strong> the director <strong>of</strong> the “workshop” th<strong>at</strong> received<br />

the rough item from the team mentioned in the caesura;<br />

• LOC(o) followed by a numeral indic<strong>at</strong>ing the marble’s vein from which the rough<br />

block was carved;<br />

• BRACC(hium) followed by a numeral registering the quarry’s sector from which<br />

the block came;<br />

• CO(n)S(uls): the name <strong>of</strong> the two consuls in charge in the year <strong>of</strong> production.<br />

• COM(missura?): the actual reading and meaning <strong>of</strong> this abbrevi<strong>at</strong>ion remain<br />

unknown.<br />

For only two centuries, from the Flavian to the Severan ages, it was thought necessary to<br />

carve complex inscriptions <strong>at</strong> some quarries, probably to mark the owners’ names and to<br />

inventory the number <strong>of</strong> items produced in a given year <strong>at</strong> a given loc<strong>at</strong>ion. These<br />

inscriptions disappear after A.D. 236.<br />

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