56_ Cementeri de Montjuïc (Barcelona – Spain)
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Day 4: Entrance
Batlló i Batlló hypogeum (1899) by Vilaseca, Fuxà & Clarasó, among others.
(Again, sorry for the delay!)
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![The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read:
‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi
gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’
‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’
Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreidl4tnhxi3qbq6bveq65le2cbfbjty36jsqyncoquqvvgqk42e7ze)
