Memorial Tablet
Dublin Core
Title
Memorial Tablet
Subject
MARBLE
Description
Transcribed from Trendall 1948:
Found near a monument in the Vigna Codini, between the Via Appia and the Via Latina; excavated by J.P. Campana in 1840. Formerly in Guidi s collection. CIL, vi, 5091; Visc., vi. Fig. 103f.
The monument near which this stone was found held the remains of several members of the imperial households of Tiberius and Claudius. Many of the slabs were still in position: others were found near by.
The gable top of the stone and the careful symmetry of the inscription enable us to estimate with fair accuracy the number of letters missing from the right-hand side. In line 1 Aug. l., as restored by Campana, seems certain. It fits the available space and takes its normal position between nomen and cognomen. In line 2 comparison with other inscriptions to imperial freedmen suggests that the word following Amiantho denoted some office within the imperial household. The second letter of the word appears to have been t and there would be space for not more than four additional letters. Struct. Abbreviated for structori is a possibility. Structor, a server or carver of dishes, is used by Petronius, Juvenal and Martial, and occurs in several inscriptions to freemen (CIL, vi, 9046-9048, and others). In line 3 the number of years needs to be completed and in lines 4 and 5 fratres and fecerunt complete the symmetry.
Another inscription in honour of a Ti. Claudius Aug. l. Amianthus Is CIL, vi 28699, also from Rome. It was set up by his mother Vettia Helpis to mark the tomb of herself and her son. Amianthus is not an uncommon name, and it may well have belonged to two imperial freedmen under the Claudian emperors.
Amianthus cannot have received his manumission later than A.D. 68, the year of the death of Nero, the last of the Claudian emperors. The inscription therefore belongs in all probability to the first century, in common with most of the others found in or near the monument. The symbols above the inscription (bird, olive-branch and wreath) are not necessarily Christian.
Found near a monument in the Vigna Codini, between the Via Appia and the Via Latina; excavated by J.P. Campana in 1840. Formerly in Guidi s collection. CIL, vi, 5091; Visc., vi. Fig. 103f.
The monument near which this stone was found held the remains of several members of the imperial households of Tiberius and Claudius. Many of the slabs were still in position: others were found near by.
The gable top of the stone and the careful symmetry of the inscription enable us to estimate with fair accuracy the number of letters missing from the right-hand side. In line 1 Aug. l., as restored by Campana, seems certain. It fits the available space and takes its normal position between nomen and cognomen. In line 2 comparison with other inscriptions to imperial freedmen suggests that the word following Amiantho denoted some office within the imperial household. The second letter of the word appears to have been t and there would be space for not more than four additional letters. Struct. Abbreviated for structori is a possibility. Structor, a server or carver of dishes, is used by Petronius, Juvenal and Martial, and occurs in several inscriptions to freemen (CIL, vi, 9046-9048, and others). In line 3 the number of years needs to be completed and in lines 4 and 5 fratres and fecerunt complete the symmetry.
Another inscription in honour of a Ti. Claudius Aug. l. Amianthus Is CIL, vi 28699, also from Rome. It was set up by his mother Vettia Helpis to mark the tomb of herself and her son. Amianthus is not an uncommon name, and it may well have belonged to two imperial freedmen under the Claudian emperors.
Amianthus cannot have received his manumission later than A.D. 68, the year of the death of Nero, the last of the Claudian emperors. The inscription therefore belongs in all probability to the first century, in common with most of the others found in or near the monument. The symbols above the inscription (bird, olive-branch and wreath) are not necessarily Christian.
Creator
AD 1 - AD 100
Source
On loan from the Nicholson Museum, The University of Sydney.
http://sydney.edu.au/museums/collections_search?record=ecatalogue.33497
http://sydney.edu.au/museums/collections_search?record=ecatalogue.33497
Date
Italy
Rome
Identifier
L.14.019
Coverage
Italic
Roman
Imperial
Files
Citation
AD 1 - AD 100, “Memorial Tablet,” RD Milns Antiquities Museum Online Exhibitions, accessed May 7, 2024, https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/340.