Tomb of Cecilia Metella - Rome, 1850. View of '...the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, which was erected about half a century before the Christian era. Its history is involved in the greatest obscurity, all that is known about it being contained in its inscription, "Cecilia. Q. Cretici. P. Metella. Crassi", that is, "To Cecilia Metella, the daughter of Quintus Cretieus, and wife ot Crassus".' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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