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Epigraph of the barrel-maker L. Canzius Acutus

Plaster cast of the original (2nd century A.D.)
c. 1930
Rome, Museo della Civiltą Romana
Inv. M.C.R. 3368

 

The epigraph commemorates a barrel-maker. His tools are portrayed in the frame: a hatchet, an implement with curved blade for rough-shaping, and two rasps. The original is kept at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Aquileia.