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Funerary monument; place of discovery: Optatiana (Sutoru, Sălaj County); 2nd - 3rd century AD.

Profiled funerary monument, belonging to a Dacian family. Aelia Prisosta lived 33 years, her daughter Aurelia Bassina lived 7 years, and Aurelius Denzi lived 80 years. The epitaph was ordered by the husband, father and, respectively, the son of those three, Aurelius Bassus. He served as signifer in the Mauri auxiliary troop that stationed in Optiana - Numerus Maurorum Optatianensium. Prisosta is a Celtic name and Denzi a Dacian name.

Inscription: D(is) M(anibus) / Aelia Prisosta vi/x[it] ann(is) XXXIII Au/r[el]ia Bassina / filia vix(it) ann(is) VII / Aurel(ius) Denzi vix(it) / ann(is) LXXX Aurel(ius) / Bassus sign(ifer) N(umeri) / M(aurorum) O(ptatianensium) coniugi et / fili(i)s b(ene) m(erentibus) p(osuit).