Their parents were just wealthy enough to raise a memorial to them and leave a little snapshot of them to history. And the snapshot they chose to immortalise in stone was the manner – and sometimes the perpetrator – of their death, which may seem, to us looking at them from here, a little bizarre. The only thing we know about Prima Florentina is that her husband murdered her. The only thing we know about Julia Restuta is that she died in a mugging that went horribly wrong. Their epitaphs seem to exist simply to draw attention to the terrible manner of their deaths and that is probably exactly
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