the will mentions a number of people -- epigraphische datenbank heidelberg counts 87 different people -- most prominent are the emperor trajan, the consuls lucius julius ursus servianus, and quintus sosius senecio. however, scholarly interest has primarily focused on the identity of the testator of the will. bartolomeo borghesi, noting a da[sumia] amongst the heirs, and observing mention of a nurse dasumia syche, whom borghesi concluded was a freedman of the testator, identified him as a member of the gens dasumius -- hence the name of the stone. mommsen embraced this identification, and at one point the testator was identified with lucius dasumius hadrianus, suffect consul "circa" 93, but various details prevented complete acceptance. it took werner eck's work to decisively refute the identification and show the testator did not belong to that "gens".