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Sarcophagus made by reusing other funerary monuments; place of discovery: Napoca (Cluj-Napoca); the original monuments are dated in the 2nd - 3rd century AD, and the repurposing is dated in 3rd - 4th century AD.

The tomb consisted of a funerary block completed lengthwise with an aedicula roof. The flat lid consisted of a stele to which a plate from a hammered funerary medallion was added. The stele was placed with the inscription facing downwards. The sarcophagus had been disturbed in antiquity, and the lid was broken. The skeleton of an adult person was found inside, from which some fragments of the skull, vertebrae and femur were recovered. The grave goods (or what remained of them) consist of two wheel-worked ceramic fragments.

The funerary stela from which the lid is made is inscribed with an epitaph. The deceased, Flavia Ursula, died at an old age - 83 years (similar examples can be found in Roman Dacian epigraphy, such as a deceased person from Porolissum who reached the old age of 85). The person ordering the epitaph is the liberta Flavia Caemina. She bears the same gentilic, and the cognomen is very rarely attested in classical onomastics, and is singular in Dacia.

Inscription: D(is) M(anibus) / Ạel(iae) Vrsulae / vixit ann(is) / LXXXIII F(lavia) Cae/mina lib(erta) pro / pietate patr/on(a)e suae po/suit bene me/renti.