MULTIPLE EPITAPH FOR FREEDMEN AND FREEDWOMEN (ROME) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL ANChandler.3.19.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum ANChandler.3.19 AshLI 18

A large rectangular slab of grey-veined white marble, with a moulded frame (0.425 0.745 0.104). Its rear is roughly finished. There are three clamp marks on its top surface (to left and right, and in the centre). It is in a good condition.

Some of the lines are indented (lines 2, 4, 5, 7, 9). There is a vacat in line two after the letters SI: this should have been SIBI. There are triangular interpuncts throughout. Guiding lines for the stonecutter are visible in the last two lines. Line 7 appears to be engraved in a different hand.

 0.028 (line 1); 0.025 (line 2); 0.028 (line 3); 0.022 (lines 4-5); 0.029 (line 6); 0.025 (line 7); 0.024 (line 8); 0.022 (line 9). Rome second half of first century BC (Solin 2003: vol.1, p.191, 252, 353, 564, 630, 648, 696; vol. 2, p.780, 1079) This inscription was found in Rome, on the edge of the Janiculum, in the area of S. Pancrazio (St Pancras) on the via Aurelia (Anonymus Hispanus Chisianus; Cittadini MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 5253; f.210 Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 f.53), in the ‘vinea/vineyard’ (i.e., villa – for its meaning, see Coffin 1979: p.viii) of an individual named by some sources as ‘Gulielmo pasticcerio’, a pastry-chef (Cittadini MS. Bib Marciana), and by others as a spice-trader, ‘Giuillelmo aromatario’ (Doni MS. Naples., Doni MS. Lat. Barb., de Winghe MS. 17872-3). Other inscriptions from the same location are C3-25, C3-29, C3-37, C3-58, C3-60. It was bought by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, and was initially displayed in his London house (Selden 1629). It belongs to the Arundel Collection, given to the University of Oxford by Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1667 (Prideaux 1676; Reinesius). It was displayed in the ‘Garden of Antiquities’ around the Sheldonian Theatre until 1715, as can be seen from the proof-engraving in the papers of Henry Aldrich (Vickers 2006: p.40-41). The Arundel marbles were subsequently transferred indoors in 1715 to ‘The Marble School’, an upper gallery in the Bodleian quadrangle (Sturdy and Moorcraft 1999). In 1749, they were transferred downstairs to the ground floor in the former School of Moral Philosophy, and at some point then ended up in the basement of the (Old) Ashmolean Museum on Broad Street (now the Museum of the History of Science) (Munby 2013). The Ashmolean Museum in its current location was built behind the University Galleries, was opened in 1894, and finally the University Galleries and Ashmolean were amalgamated by statute in 1908. The inscription is currently in a storeroom. Photograph Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail Photograph: detail
Sextus Titienius Decimi libertus Eros sibi Publius Clodius Publii libertus Telamo sibi et Publio Clodio Publii liberto Corintho conliberto et Chiae libertae Caius Iunius Appi Cai libertus Seno sibi et Euaristo liberto et Corneliae U+0186mulieris libertae Secundae Caius Fannius Caii libertus Alexander sibi et Crenusae libertae et Iancho liberto

Sextus Titienius Eros, freedman of Decimus, for himself; Publius Clodius Telamo, freedman of Publius, for himself and for Publius Clodius Corinthus, freedman of Publius, fellow-freedman, and for Chia, freedwoman; Gaius Iunius Seno, freedman of Appius and Gaius for himself and for Euaristus, freedman and for Cornelia Secunda, freedwoman of a woman; Gaius Fannius Alexander, freedman of Gaius, for himself and for Crenusa, freedwoman, and for Inachus, freedman

TITIENVS (Sirmond; Cittadini MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 5253 and MS. cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 [= 4661]; Hübner in CIL); TITIENIVS (Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113; Doni MS Naples; Solin).U+0186 L. (Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113; Doni MS. Naples.; Cittadini MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 5253 and MS. cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 [=4661]; de Winghe; Ciacconio Raff. {i.e. Alfonso Chacón} according to CIL) SIBI omitted (Cittadini MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 5253 and Doni Barb. Lat. 2756), but included (Cittadini MS. cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 [= 4661]); included at end of line 1 (Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113); SIBI ET SVIS (Sirmond), with reading SI followed by BI ET crossed through ET CHIAE (Doni MS. Naples, Barb. Lat. 2756) AP. CL. (Selden); APOLLON[IVS] (Reinesius); AP C L SOLIO (Doni MS. Naples, Doni Lat. Barb. 2756) CORNELIAE L SECVNDAE (Cittadini MS. cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 [= 4661]; de Winghe MS. 17872-3; MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 5253; Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113; Doni MS. Naples, Barb. Lat. 2756) C FANIVIVS (Doni Barb. Lat. 2756) additional ET at start of line (Doni Barb. Lat. 2756)

This inscription, probably dating from the second half of the first century BC, shows the purchase of a collective funerary monument by a group of freedmen and freedwomen, who appear to belong to four different households, given that the names of the purchasers include Sextus Titienius Eros, Publius Clodius Telamo, Gaius Iunius Seno, and Gaius Fannius Alexander. It is typical of some freedmen from elite households of this period to club together in order to purchase a collective tomb, whilst others may have done so with their fellow-freedmen or with professional colleagues (Fabre 1981: pp.159-60).

Anonymus Hispanus Chisianus/Anonimo Spagnuolo Vat. Chigi MS. I.V. 167 f.440; Cittadini MS. cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 (= 4661) f.137; Cittadini MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 5253 f.212 (followed by Doni BN Naples, MS G.XII.75 f.500, no.10; Doni Barb. Lat. 2756 f.182); de Winghe Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique MS. 17872 vol.2, 42 (followed by Ciacconio Raff. {i.e. Alfonso Chacón} f.143, according to CIL); followed in turn by Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 f.53); Sirmond MS. BNF Paris suppl. Lat. 1417 = Lat. 9696 no.5; Gude MS. 103,3 according to CIL; Selden (1629) p.54 no.10; Prideaux (1676) p.147, no.109; Reinesius (1682) p.884, no.13 (from Selden); Maittaire (1732) p.41, no.105; Chandler (1763) p.132, no.19; CIL VI.4.fasc.1 no. 27454 [Hübner] (1894); Solin (1977) p.127 no.2; Solin (1998) p.90, with photo

Online: EDCS-14801410 [accessed 17/07/15]

Anonymus Hispanus Chisianus/Anonimo Spagnuolo [1566?] Vat. Chigi MS. I.V. 167 Chandler R. 1763 Marmora Oxoniensia Clarendon Press Oxford Cittadini Celso[Cittadinius] 1553-1627 MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 5253 Cittadini Celso[Cittadinius] 1553-1627 MS. cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 (= 4661) ‘Inscriptiones antiquae a Celso Cittadini exscriptae cum annotationibus anno 1604 (from scan kindly provided by Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana). Coffin D.R. 1979 The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press Doni [Donius] Giovanni Battista 1594-1647 BN Naples, MS G.XII.75 Doni [Donius] Giovanni Battista 1594-1647 cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 Doni [Donius] Giovanni Battista 1594-1647 MS. Barb. Lat. 2756 FabreG> 1981 Libertus. Recherches sur les rapports patron-affranchi à la fin de la république romaine Rome Collection de l’Ecole française de Rome 50 Maittaire M. 1732, 2nd edn. Marmorum, Arundellianorum, Seldenianorum, Aliorumque Academiae Oxoniensi Donatorum London William Bowyer Munby J. 2013 A rare collection: Oxford museums past and present Excalibur: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur MacGregor H.Wiegel and M.Vickers Oxford BAR Int. ser. 2512 75-85 Prideaux H. 1676 Marmora Oxoniensia ex Arundellianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata Oxford Reinesius T. 1682 Syntagma inscriptionum antiquarum Leipzig J.E. Hahn Selden J. 1629 Marmora Arundelliana London J.Billius Sirmond J. [Sirmondus] 1559-1651 Recueil d'inscriptions copiées par Sirmond. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits,suppl. Lat. 1417 = Lat. 9696 [digital scan supplied by BN Paris] Solin H. 1977 Analecta epigraphica Arctos 11 117-32 Solin H. 1998 Analecta Epigraphica 1970-1997 Rome Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae vol. 21 Solin H. 2003 Die griechischen Personennamen in Rom. Ein Namenbuch (2nd edn) 3 vols Berlin De Gruyter Sturdy D. and N. Moorcraft 1999 Christopher Wren and Oxford’s garden of antiquities Minerva 10.1 25-28 Vickers M. 2006 The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles in Oxford Oxford Ashmolean Museum Winghe P. de[Winghius 1560-1592 Inscriptiones Sacrae et Prophanae Collectae Romae et in Aliis Italiae Urbibus, Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique MS. 17872 vol.2 2 Warburg facsimile