EPITAPH SET UP BY P. TURULLIUS APOLLONIUS (ROME) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL ANChandler.3.30.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum ANChandler.3.30 AshLI 29

An unadorned slab of grey marble (in a modern mount) (0.303 0.60 0.04). The rear remains rough and unfinished. The top edge of the slab is chipped, and the letters at the start of line 1 are damaged

There are interpuncts in the form of commas throughout. Line 5 has been erased, but possibly it began with the letters CER (Gude, according to CIL). Selden mistakenly thought that two lines had been erased. The final line of text appears to have been added by a different hand.

 0.032 (line 1); 0.025 (line 2), with Θ 0.02; 0.028 (line 3); 0.027 (line 4); 0.025 (line 6). Rome first half of the first century AD (Solin 2003: vol.1, p.295). It was found beyond the gate on the via Appia (Gude, according to CIL), and was seen, according to Reinesius, by Sirmond at the Palazzo of Cardinal Crescenzi, near the Pantheon in Rome, some time after 1611 (when Pier Paolo Crescenzi was created cardinal: Polverini Fosi 1984) (see also C3-17, C3-71). It was also seen and copied by Giovanni Zaratino Castellini (1570-1641) at the Palazzo of Cardinal Crescenzi (who died in 1645), some time after 1611. Three of Castellini’s folios were bought by Garrucci in around 1858, and subsequently published by Minasi in Civiltà Cattolica of 1893 (Ferrua 1958). This location is also recorded by Chandler (1763: p.xvi). The inscription was then brought to England to join the Arundel Collection in London (Selden 1629: p.51 no.4), 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. The inscription is currently in a storeroom. Photograph
Publius Turullius Publii et U+0186Gaiae libertus Apollonius Θ Capria U+0186Gaiae liberta Andromacha Betutia Quinti liberta Fausta Caius Vicranus Secundus Cercenia Marci liberta Uranio

Publius Turullius Apollonius freedman of Publius and of a woman; deceased: Capria Andromacha freedwoman of a woman; Betutia Fausta, freedwoman of Quintus; Gaius Vicranus Secundus; [erasure]; Cercenia Uranio freedwoman of Marcus.

P. TVRVLLIVS (Sirmond); P.I…VPVLLIVS P.E. ) L. (Selden); P.I…VPVLLIVS P.F. ) L. (Reinesius, who suggests P. TVRVLLIVS); P ┴URULLIUS (Chandler) CAPRIA (Sirmond); CARRIA (Selden; Reinesius, who suggests CAPRIA) CER //// (Gude); line omitted by Sirmond CERCENIA (Sirmond); CEPCENIA M.I (Selden); CERCENIO (Prideaux, Maittaire); CEPCENIA M.L. (Reinesius, who suggests CERCENIA or CERCIENIA)

The Greek letter theta Θ (= θάνατος) is sometimes used in Latin epitaphs (line 2) to indicate a deceased person (cf. Calabi Limentani 1991: p.202 no.29; Carroll 2006: pp.87-88). The implication of stating that Capria Andromacha is deceased is that the others setting up the epitaph for themselves did so whilst still alive. It is unclear what relationship (if any) existed between the freedmen and freedwomen listed.

Sirmond MS. BNF Paris suppl. Lat. 1419 = Lat. 108088, no. 282; Gude MS. 294, 3 (probably following Holstenius, according to CIL); Selden (1629) 51 no.4; Prideaux (1676) p.263, no.124; Reinesius (1682) p.892, no.42 (following Sirmond and Selden); Maittaire (1732) p.42, no.106 + 562; Chandler (1763) p.133, no.30; CIL VI.4 fasc.1 no.27838 [Hübner] (1894); CIL VI.4 fasc. 2 (1902) p. 3534

Online: EDCS-14801794 [accessed 20/07/15]

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