A SLAVE’S EPITAPH Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.762.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.762 AshLi 151

A marble plaque (0.28 0.356 0.03). The rear is smoothed; the left side is slightly broken. There is some damage around the edges.

Elegantly cut, the text is centred, and there are interpuncts.

 0.026 (line 1); 0.021 (line 2); 0.018 (lines 3-8). No provenance is recorded for this funerary inscription, which came into the Ashmolean collection in 1960. possibly second century AD (use of DM formula/ tria nomina). It was purchased 2nd June 1960 with accession nos 758, 759, 760, 761 for £12.10.0 from Roger Warner of Burford, a dealer in antiquities who had acquired it from the collection of Lord St Vincent, of Sudbury Hall. Photograph Photograph
dis manibus Stlogae vixit annis XIX diebus LV Lucius Calpurnius Fortunatus vernae merenti nutritus Ianuari et Heliadis

To the spirits of the dead. To Stloga (who) lived 19 years, 55 days. Lucius Calpurnius Fortunatus to his well-deserving household-slave, foster-child of Ianuarius and of Helias.

This inscription appears to be unpublished, and contains several curious features. The name of the deceased household slave is unexpected: no parallel is known from the city of Rome for a slave with the name Stloga (Solin 1996), which is otherwise usually associated with the consul of AD 141, M. Peducaeus Stloga Priscinus (Solin and Salomies 1994: p.408).

Unpublished; Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1960.762.

Solin H. 1996 Die stadtrömischen Sklavennamen Stuttgart Steiner Solin H. and O. Salomies 1994 Repertorium nominum gentilium et cognominum Latinorum Hildesheim Olms-Weidann