New	JJ	O
interpretation	NN	O
of	IN	O
the	DT	O
Roman	NP	O
funerary	JJ	O
relief	NN	O
of	IN	O
the	DT	O
Gessii	NP	O
(	(	O
Boston	NP	O
,	,	O
Museum	NP	O
of	IN	O
Fine	NP	O
Arts	NP	O
,	,	O
Archibald	NP	O
Cary	NP	O
Coolidge	NP	O
Fund	NP	O
,	,	O
inv.	NP	O
37.100	CD	O
=	SYM	O
ILLRP	NP	O
503	CD	O
)	)	O
from	IN	O
Viterbo	NP	O
and	CC	O
dated	VBN	O
to	TO	O
the	DT	O
2nd	JJ	O
half	NN	O
of	IN	O
the	DT	O
1st	JJ	O
cent	NN	O
.	SENT	O

B.	NP	O
C.	NP	O
On	IN	O
this	DT	O
relief	NN	O
,	,	O
the	DT	O
highest-ranking	JJ	O
position	NN	O
(	(	O
the	DT	O
first	JJ	O
name	NN	O
and	CC	O
portrait	NN	O
seen	VBN	O
when	WRB	O
the	DT	O
relief	NN	O
is	VBZ	O
read	VBN	O
from	IN	O
left	VBN	O
to	TO	O
right	NN	O
)	)	O
is	VBZ	O
held	VBN	O
by	IN	O
Gessia	NP	O
Fausta	NP	O
,	,	O
freedwoman	NN	O
of	IN	O
Publius	NP	O
.	SENT	O

That	IN	O
a	DT	O
freedwoman	NN	O
holds	VBZ	O
this	DT	O
prominent	JJ	O
position	NN	O
is	VBZ	O
explained	VBN	O
by	IN	O
the	DT	O
fact	NN	O
that	IN	O
she	PP	O
was	VBD	O
the	DT	O
last	JJ	O
surviving	VBG	O
member	NN	O
of	IN	O
the	DT	O
family	NN	O
and	CC	O
the	DT	O
arbitrator	NN	O
of	IN	O
the	DT	O
will	NN	O
.	SENT	O

The	DT	O
inscriptions	NNS	O
and	CC	O
iconography	NN	O
reveal	VBP	O
her	PP$	O
efforts	NNS	O
to	TO	O
publicize	VB	O
her	PP$	O
newly	RB	O
acquired	VBN	O
social	JJ	O
standing	NN	O
and	CC	O
suggest	VBP	O
that	IN	O
her	PP$	O
placement	NN	O
on	IN	O
the	DT	O
monument	NN	O
was	VBD	O
not	RB	O
necessarily	RB	O
bound	VBN	O
by	IN	O
her	PP$	O
original	JJ	O
birth	NN	O
status	NN	O
.	SENT	O