Moregine bracelet

[1] The Moregine Silver Treasure and the Tablets (providing a unique record of business transactions) were also discovered there.

[9] It is not certain whether all of these valuables were owned by the woman who was found carrying them or if she had looted them in her escape from Pompeii, though Jennifer Baird suggests that her wearing the snake bracelet indicates a possible personal connection.

[8] On the inside of the bracelet is an inscription, near the head of the snake,[11] reading "dom(i)nus ancillae suae"[12] ("the master to his very own slave girl").

[15] The bracelet's inscription, and its implications for the status of the woman wearing it, have been the subject of much academic discussion.

[20] The gift of such valuable jewellery to a slave may have been used to demonstrate the wealth of her master: Courtney Ward draws a parallel between the bracelet of the Moregine woman and Terence's play Heauton Timorumenos, where a character owns ten slave girls, all of whom are dressed in expensive clothes and jewellery.