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Rufius

a modeller of small terra-cotta figures (siyilla), whose name is found inscribed on the base of one of these figures, found at Perugia in 1775, in the following form, c. RUFIUS. s. FINXIT, where the S, no doubt, stands for Sigillarius. Some read the name Rupius. (Orelli, Inscr. Lat. Sel. No. 4281; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 398, 399.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.