The object is part of a series of inscribed collars, with or without tags, found in both Italy, particularly in Rome and North Africa. Hold me, lest I flee, and return me to my master Viventius on the estate of Callistus
Tene me ne fugia(m) et revoca me ad dom(i)num Viventium in ar(e)a Callisti Attached to a metal collar, an enslaved person was forced to wear it. Found in Rome and dated to the 4th century AD, it's a tag for a human. Although seemingly just a small inscribed plate (5.8 cm in diameter), this object tells a dark and troubling story from the heart of the Roman empire.
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