Inscribed Sarcophagus Cover from Bevagna
(ca. 2nd century BC)
This
fragment from a sandstone sarcophagus, which seems to come from the
area of Bevagna, contains an inscription in Umbrian using an Etruscan
alphabet.
It has been transcribed as:
pe. pe. uferier . uhter |
which the museum translates as "Petti di Petto Ofredio, augur".
However, the deceased is more likely to have been a uhter (magistrate) than an augur (a religious official who read the future from the observation of the flight of birds). The Latin equivalent of his name is probably Pettius Aufidius, son of Pettius.