Funerary relief of Publius Aiedius Amphio and Aiedia Fausta Melior, Roman marble funerary relief in Berlin-Mitte, Germany

The grave relief of Publius Aiedius Amphio and Aiedia Fausta Melior is a white marble plaque, 99 cm high and 64 cm wide, carved in the first half of the 1st century AD. It shows the two freed slaves half-length, hands clasped at the centre; Aiedius wears a toga, Aiedia a chiton and cloak, with two rings on her fingers. The inscription below names them as freedman and freedwoman of a Publius Aiedius.

Carved in the first half of the 1st century AD, the plaque was set into the wall of a large tomb building along the Via Appia outside Rome, where such reliefs were often placed beside doors like windows facing the road. It was found on the Via Appia and purchased in 1866 for the predecessor of the Antikensammlung Berlin, where it is now inventoried as SK 840 (R 7).

The relief demonstrates Roman social advancement through the representation of former slaves who gained citizenship and the right to legal marriage.

The sculpture is displayed at the Pergamon Museum alongside numerous other Roman works and architectural pieces. Visitors can view the carved details closely and read the inscribed text to learn more about the individuals depicted in the work.

The relief is one of more than 125 known examples of this type, which were set into the walls of large tomb buildings, sometimes beside the doors, so the dead seemed to look out like windows onto the tomb-lined roads outside Rome. Freedmen were often buried in the tomb buildings of their former owners.