The lives of the inhabitants of the Musti microregion were closely tied to agriculture. During the early Roman Empire, Musti was surrounded by numerous private, community or imperial domains, such as the imperial property in Henchir Hnich (3.5 km west of Musti), where the first copy of the lex Hadriana de agris rudibus was recently discovered. Another example is the Fundus Turris Rutundae (7 km southeast of Musti), where the coloni fun[di Tur]ris Rutundae d(omini) n(ostri) Aug(usti) were active in 235 CE. In 2022, the prospection team in this area inventoried the funerary cippus (dated after 161 AD) of a slave named Saturninus, Augg(ustorum) verna, a member of the familia Caesaris. He acted (his function is unknown) in the administration of the domain and died at the age of 45.

D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum). | Sat[ur]ninus | Augg(ustorum) v[e]rna | pius, vixit an|nis n(umero) XXXXV. | H(ic) s(itus) e(st).

To the Spirits of the dead. Saturninus, a house-born slave of [two] Augusti, pious, lived 45 years. He lies here.

The administration of a domain or domains in the microregion of Musti was also the responsibility of M. Ulpius Fortunatus, the freedman of Trajan, lib(ertus) et proc(urator) Aug(usti), whose funerary cippus was published in 2014 (AE 2014, 1525). His wife was a freedwoman, Coelia Thallusa, daughter of Aulus, who most probably came from Italy.

D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum). | M(arcus) Ulpius For|tunatus, lib(ertus)  et proc(urator) Aug(usti), | pius vix(it) ann(is) | XLII, h(ic) s(itus) e(st). | Coelia A(uli) f(ilia) | Thallusa, pi|issima uxor, | fecit.

To the Spirits of the dead. Marcus Ulpius Fortunatus, freedman and procurator of Augustus, pious, lived 42 years, lies here. Coelia Thallusa, daughter of Aulus, the most pious wife, made this.