Korbine

Hmm. I was hoping there would be some obvious way to identify the statue and quote through ancient Roman history or mythology. Now I'm just confused

I'm thinking the Domizia part refers to the statue, note that trovata (found) is in the feminine form, referring to Domizia. Maybe we can have a picture of the statue? Sure.

Hello, Roman forum I wonder if anybody could help me translate a quote in Italian regarding something I assume is Roman Empire-related. The exact quote is: "Domizia / Trovata presso la Via Cassia non lungi dol / luogo detto il Sepolcro di Nerone." Somebody had previously translated it as: "On her way home she found/discovered the tomb of Nerone." My modest translation skills found that translation to be about accurate. "Sepolcro di Nerone" appears to refer to the tomb of Nero, and "somebody" does find it, apparently along the Via Cassia road. What I haven't figured out is WHO is doing the finding. "Domizia" may or may not refer to Domitia Lepida, Nero's aunt. I don't know enough about Roman history to say either way, though. The Italian quote is located on the back of a picture of a Romanesque statue of a woman, holding a scroll upraised in her right hand, and what looks like a snake coiling about her left wrist, its head in a bowl she's holding in her left hand. I know next to nothing about this period or Roman artwork, so I don't know if it's significant at all. Google hasn't been able to tell me what I want to know. Can you? =O