FAMILY TOMB INSCRIPTION (ROME) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL ANChandler.3.25.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum ANChandler.3.25 AshLI 24

A large slab of white marble with a moulded frame (0.645 1.17 0.098). The rear remains rough and unfinished. There are clamp marks at top right and left, and at the centre of the right side. The frame has broken around the top-right clamp and around the clamp in the centre of the right side. There is a crack reaching down from the clamp on the top right.

There are interpuncts in the shape of commas throughout.

 0.053 (line 1); 0.048 (lines 2-4); 0.05 (line 5); 0.05 + 0.055, tall I (line 6); 0.032 (lines 7-8). In line 3, ┴ is a form of L, signifying the number 50 (Gordon (1983) p.45); it suggests an early imperial date for this epitaph. This inscription was found in Rome, on the edge of the Janiculum (Sirmond MS. BNF; Gude, MS according to CIL), in the area of S. Pancrazio (St Pancras) on the via Aurelia Early imperial (based on numeral, Gordon 1983: p.45). This inscription was found in Rome, on the edge of the Janiculum (Sirmond MS. BNF; Gude, MS according to CIL), in the area of S. Pancrazio (St Pancras) on the via Aurelia, in the ‘vinea/vineyard’ (i.e., villa – for its meaning, see Coffin 1979: p.viii) of an individual named as a spice-trader, ‘Giuillelmo aromatario’ (Cittadini MS. Bib Marciana, Doni MS. cod. Barb. Lat., de Winghe MS.). Other inscriptions from the same location are C3-19, C3-29, C3-37, C3-58, C3-60. . It was then displayed in Arundel House in London (Selden 1629: p.50 no.2, Reinesius 1682), and subsequently given to the University of Oxford by Selden, according to the preface in Prideaux (1676). The inscription is currently in store. Photograph Photograph Photograph: inscription detail left Photograph: inscription detail centre Photograph: inscription detail centre Photograph: inscription detail right
Marci Anni Aucti et Semproniae Scurrae in fronte cum ustrino pedes U+2534III in agro pedes XXIIII Marcus Annius Marci Anni Felicis filius Saturninus vixit annos XIIX pius et sanctus is ereptus matri nec illae potuit gratiam referre

Of Marcus Annius Auctus and of Sempronia Scurra. 53 feet wide including pyre, 24 feet deep. Marcus Annius Saturninus, son of Marcus Annius Felix, lived 18 years, dutiful and upright, he was snatched from his mother, and was not able to give her thanks.

AVSTI (Doni MS. cod. Barb. Lat.) SECVRRAE (Doni MS. cod. Barb. Lat.) VSTINH (Maittaire); LIII (Sirmond, Cittadini MS Bib. Marc., Gude); LIIII (Prideaux, Maittaire, CIL); LIII (Doni MS. cod. Barb. Lat.); ┴ III (Selden, Maittaire p.561, lapis); III (Chandler); ┴ IIII (CIL) XXIII (Selden, Reinesius) VIXIT (Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113) IBIAE (Cittadini MS Bib Marc); FILIO POTVIT (Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113; Doni MS. cod. Barb. Lat.)

It is unclear what family relationships are represented here, but four individuals are named: Marcus Annius Auctus, Sempronia Scurra, Marcus Annius Saturninus and his father Marcus Annius Felix. Sempronia Scurra is probably a freedwoman, as her cognomen is a typical slave-name (Kajanto 1965: p.79, 134). The dimensions for the tomb include an area for a funerary pyre. Some tomb enclosures could be quite extensive, even including a garden and area for dining.

Cittadini MS. cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 (= 4661) f.138; de Winghe Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique MS. 17872 vol.2, f.42’; Ciacconio Raff. {i.e. Alfonso Chacón} f.145, according to CIL; Doni Lat. Barb. 2756 f.11 (following Ciacconio); Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 f.53; Doni BN Naples, MS G.XII.75 fol.438, no. 6; Sirmond MS. BNF Paris suppl. Lat. 1419 = Lat. 10808, no. 292; Selden (1629) 50 no.2; Gude MS. 129, 7, ind. LXXXIII, according to CIL; Prideaux (1676) p.113, no.47; Spon (1679) p.291 (following Selden); Reinesius (1682) p.727, no.19 (following Selden); Hesselius (= Gude) (1731) Index nominorum pp.83-84; Maittaire (1732) p.35, no.50 + 561; Chandler (1763) p.132, no.25; CIL VI.2 no.11706 [Hübner] (1882); CIL VI.4 fasc.2 p.3509 (1902)

Online: EDCS-17201386 [accessed 20/07/15]

Chandler R. 1763 Marmora Oxoniensia Oxford Clarendon Press 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 Giovanni Battista [Donius] 1594-1647 BN Naples, MS G.XII.75 Doni Giovanni Battista [Donius] 1594-1647 MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 Doni Giovanni Battista [Donius] 1594-1647 MS. cod. Barb. Lat. 2756 Gordon A.E. 1983 Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy Berkley, London University of California Press Hesselius F. 1731 Antiquae Inscriptiones quam Graecae tum Latinae olim a Marquardo Gudio collectae Leovardia Kajanto I. 1965 The Latin Cognomina Helsinki Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 36.2 Maittaire M. 1732, 2nd edn. Marmorum, Arundellianorum, Seldenianorum, Aliorumque Academiae Oxoniensi Donatorum London William Bowyer 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, Latin 10808 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9077728w [accessed 10/06/2014] Spon J. 1679 Miscellanea Eruditae Antiquitatis Frankfurt Venedig Winghe P. de 1560-1592 Inscriptiones Sacrae et Prophanae Collectae Romae et in Aliis Italiae Urbibus, Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique MSS. 17872-3 vol.2 Warburg facsimile