EPITAPH FOR A MAGISTRATE FROM GADES (CÁDIZ), BAETICA Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.759.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.759 AshLI 148

A marble plaque (0.218 0.217 0.035). The rear remains rough. There is some minor damage to the edges.

There are interpuncts.

 0.032 (lines 1-2); 0.027 (line 3); 0.021 (lines 4-5). Some letters have exaggerated serifs (V, line 1; T, lines 1, 3, 4) It was found near the church of St Joseph (San José) in Cádiz (González 1982). first/second century AD. According to CIL, this inscription was recorded in the mid-sixteenth century by an anonymous traveller, whose manuscript is preserved in Turin’s Archivio di Stato (Francesconi collection, vol. 62, W I 5, f.678-692). It was found near the church of St Joseph (San José) in Cádiz (González 1982). Its current location was unknown to the editor of IRPCadiz in 1982, but according to the Ashmolean Accession Register it was acquired by the Ashmolean in 1960, purchased on 2nd June together with 1960.758, 760, 761, 762 for £12.10.0 from the dealer Roger Warner, of Burford, who had in turn acquired the inscriptions from the collection of Lord St Vincent, of Sudbury Hall. Photograph
Lucius Antonius Quinti filius Galeria tribu Antullus IIIIvir aedilicia potestate hic situs est

Lucius Antonius Antullus, son of Quintus, of the Galerian voting-tribe, quattuorvir with the power of an aedile, lies buried here.

ANTVLVS (Clemente).

This inscription was found in Gades (modern Cádiz) in the Spanish province of Baetica. The cognomen of the deceased Antullus is Ibero-Turdetanian in flavour (Keay 1988: p.73), showing continuation of local naming patterns alongside the spread of Roman citizenship.

Anonymus no.3 (according to CIL); Clemente (1846) p.23 no.9; CIL II no.1727 [Hübner] (1869); Romero de Torres (1934) p.131; Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1960.759; González, IRPCadiz 123 (1982)

Online: EDCS-05501421 [accessed 12/09/14]

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register Clemente F. de 1846 Inscripciones romanas de Cadiz Cádiz Don Manuel Bosch González J. 1982 Inscripciones romanas de la provincia de Cadiz Cádiz Disputación de Cádiz [=IRPCadiz] Keay S.J. 1988 Roman Spain London British Museum Romero de Torres E. 1934 Catálogo monumental de España. Provincia de Cádiz (1908-1909) Texto Madrid Madrid: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes