Sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus

A summary of this analysis states: The most compelling arguments that suggest the removal of part of the same verse text we now have relate to the shape and character of the erasure itself.

In effect, a fine sarcophagus, which was inscribed with a long and carefully executed text, is marred by a rough erasure.

If a short, earlier text had indeed been inscribed, there would have been no reason to write it in small letters at the very top of the ample space available on the front of the sarcophagus.

Pope Pius VI gave the bones to a Venetian Senator, Angelo Quirini, who re-interred them in an elaborate sepulcher in the gardens of his villa near Padua.

[8] The gold ring was given by Pius IV to a French scholar, Louis Dutens, who later sold it to the Earl of Beverley.

The classicist Mary Beard confirmed in 2015 that it was still in the collection, which makes it the only ancient Roman ring which can be traced to an original owner.