: most of the features typical to the “conventional” representation of the myth are missing. Furthermore, in some tombs more then one appliqué depicting the same scene has been found. This indicates that
for the study of evocatio : in the first place, it is the rite’s first epigraphic evidence; furthermore, it confirms essentially the reliability of the carmen handed down by Macrobius. There are
tomb: also when the stone is physically far from a tomb, and not directly connected with a tomb. Furthermore, such an association is so strong that it occurs also within some contexts apparently having nothing