The article provides a new interpretation of the funeral relief of Gessii. The author resorts to iconographic and physiognomic data analysis to reveal possible social standing, age, and relationships of the bust-length figures carved onto the relief. He emphasizes the mysteries that the art object still retains. The dating of relief belongs to unresolved problems as various hypotheses ascribe it to the time span ranging from 50 – 60 B.C. to 10 B.C. The contradictions are also caused by the simultaneous analysis of extended names inscriptions and iconographic representation details. The order of names in Roman epitaphs implied the first place given presumably to men with a high status. This relief contradicts this requirement and names the freed slave woman (Gessia Fausta) first, thus, endowing her with honorable position. Hughes identify the persons carved onto the panel as Gessia Fausta (mother), Publius Gessius (father), and Publius Gessius Primus (their son). The researcher claims that Publius Gessius cohabited with slave Gessia Fausta and freed their child.