Wealth Achieved
Records of Acte's household and estates in Velitrae, Puteoli and Sardinia attest to considerable wealth, accumulated while she was Nero's mistress. She had left the imperial scene in ownership of a household staff as well as property. After Nero's death, and along with two of his old nurses, Acte gave him a proper Roman burial, burning the body on a pyre with a coin under the tongue and covering each eye. She deposited his remains in the tomb of the Domitii, the family of Nero's biological father, in the Pincian Hills. She is said to have paid for the funeral at a cost of 200,000 sesterces. There were found many inscriptions of her slaves and freedmen. Modern research believes it improbable that she was a Christian, although some of her slaves seem to have possessed the Christian faith. The epitaph of Acte was discovered at Velitrae.
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