This distinguished marble monument contains portrait busts of Petronia Hedone and her son as well as a simple dedication written in well-formed letters. While she is portrayed as an elegant Roman matrona (with a hairdo described as similar to Marciana's, the sister of Trajan), her name suggests that she is a freedwoman of the Petronius family (see names). It is possible that her son, who wears toga-like clothing but no bulla, is also a former slave, Philemon, freed by Lucius Petronius, and perhaps his son (for another opinion see I, Claudia, p. 201, listed in the Companion Bibliography). Judging from the quality and decoration of the stone which she ordered, Hedone was wealthy. In addition, she made provision in her family tomb for the freedpersons that she herself manumitted, as well as their families. There is no mention of a husband (he may have pre-deceased her) or of a patronus, nor any indication of where she obtained the money to give herself and her household so grand a funerary monument.