TOMB INSCRIPTION OF C. IULIUS IASON AND COCCEIA TRYPHAENA (ROME) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL ANChandler.3.23.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum ANChandler.3.23 AshLI 22

A sizeable unadorned slab of grey-veined white marble, with a moulded frame (in a modern mount) (0.354 0.535 0.052). The rear remains rough and unfinished. The stone is broken and mended at bottom left; there is some chipping around the edges. There is a small hole in the middle at the top.

The text is carefully laid out, with some attempt at centring the lines and letter-size decreasing from top to bottom. There are triangular interpuncts.

 0.036 (line 1); 0.03 (line 2); 0.028 (lines 3-4); 0.022 (line 5); 0.02 (line 6); 0.017 (line 7). It was seen at Rome, on the Janiculum (Gude, according to CIL) first century AD (Solin 2003: vol.I, p.533 + vol.II, p.847). It was seen at Rome, on the Janiculum (Gude, according to CIL), but then became part of the Arundel collection which was given to the University of Oxford by Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1667 (Prideaux 1676). The Arundel marbles were first displayed in the ‘Garden of Antiquities’ outside the new Sheldonian Theatre from 1668/9 (Sturdy and Moorcraft 1999), and were subsequently transferred indoors in 1715 to ‘The Marble School’, an upper gallery in the Bodleian Quadrangle. 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. It is currently in a storeroom. Photograph Photograph
Caius Iulius Iason et Cocceia Tryphaena fecerunt sibi et libertis libertabusque suorum dumtaxat qui ex familia eorum fuissent in fronte pedes VI ssemis in agro pedes VIIII

Gaius Iulius Iason and Cocceia Tryphaena set this up for themselves and for their freedmen and their freedwomen, provided that they are from their household. 6½ feet wide, 9 feet deep.

] FECERVNT SIBI / ET LIBERTIS LIBERTABVSQVE (Orelli) IN FR P VI (Orelli)

This inscription defines the ownership and right to burial in a tomb-plot, and would have been displayed on the outside façade of the tomb building, probably above the doorway. The dedicators are of uncertain status (Solin 2003: vol.I p.533 + vol.II p.847), and could be freeborn, freed, or Junian Latin. The proviso that the tomb be used only for freedmen and freedwomen from their own household (familia) reflects the common concern to avoid tomb violation by external heirs (compare C3-18), but is used in a rather unusual sense here given that all freedmen and freedwomen by definition belonged to their patron’s familia. In this case, it seems that the word is being used imprecisely in a non-legal form, perhaps in order to designate freedmen actually residing in the same household as their patron. The final line relates to the dimensions of the tomb-plot.

Sirmond MS. BNF Paris suppl. Lat. 1419 = Lat. 10808, no.294; Gude MS.130,1 (according to CIL); Prideaux (1676) p.124, no.64; Fabretti (1702) p.151 no.209 (following Prideaux); Maittaire (1732) p.40, no.97; Chandler (1763) p.132, no.23; Orelli (1828) II 4399; CIL VI.3 no.20087 [Hübner] (1886); CIL VI.4 fasc.3 p. 3915 (1933); ILS 8276 (1955)

Online: EDCS-12200768 [accessed 01/07/15]

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