EPITAPH OF PEDANIUS EUTYCHES AND PEDANIA IRENE, ROME Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL ANChandler.3.38.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum ANChandler.3.38 AshLI 37

A slab of white marble (0.56 1.00 0.09), within a decorative moulded frame, on a modern mount. There are two clamp marks on the top edge, to right and left. The stone is basically intact, with some damage on the right and left edges. The rear remains rough.

Inscribed on the front face, with line 1 laid out as a heading. There are triangular interpuncts throughout, and some ligatures (line 2 HE; line 6 VM). The stonecutter has corrected a couple of mistakes in the letter-cutting in line 3: the word Pedania has been corrected from Pedaniae, with an E erased, whilst the word Irene has initially been cut as Inene and then corrected. The unusual abbreviation su(is) at the end of line 4 reflects that the stonecutter has run out of space to complete the line.

 0.044 (line 1); 0.05 (line 2); 0.045 (lines 3-6). Rome second century AD (Solin 2003: vol. 1 p.460, vol. 2 p.862). This inscription was found on the via Aurelia, in the vinea/vineyard (i.e., ‘villa’ – for its meaning, see Coffin 1979: p.viii) of Guglielmo (de Winghe MS.; Doni Barb. Lat.) (seemingly the same, somewhat confused location as C3-19, C3-25, C3-29, C3-37). It was then brought to England to join 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 this inscription is visible in the proof-engraving depicting this display in the papers of Henry Aldrich (Vickers 2006: pp.40-41). They 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 Photograph Photograph Photograph
dis manibus Caius Pedanius Eutyches et Pedaniae Inrene fecerunt sibi et suis libertis libertabus que posterisque eorum

To the spirits of the dead. Gaius Pedanius Eutyches and Pedania Irene set this up for themselves and for their freedmen and freedwomen and for their descendants.

DM omitted (Prideaux, Maittaire) EVTICHES (Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113); EVTHYCHES (Cittadini MS. Bib. Marc.) PADAVIA (Cittadini MS. Bib. Marc.) SIB ET SV (Cittadini MS. Bib. Marc.); SVIS (Prideaux, Maittaire) LIBERIS (Cittadini MS. Bib. Marc.) POSTERISQ (Fabretti)

It is likely that the epitaph commemorates a husband and wife, but it is unclear whether they have both been freed by the same patron (or whether Irene is both freedwoman and wife of Eutyches) and so share the same nomen: their freed status is not explicitly stated, and so is not certain.

Cittadini MS. Cod. Bib. Marciana Lat. XIV, 116 (= 4661) f.138; de Winghe Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique MS. 17872 vol.2, f.42’ (followed by Ciacconio Raff. {i.e. Alfonso Chacón} f.145, according to CIL); Doni MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 f.53; Doni MS. cod. Barb. Lat. 2756 f.10; Doni BN Naples, MS G.XII.75 fol.438 no.7; Gude MS. 130, 9 (according to CIL); Prideaux (1676) p.147, no.108; Fabretti (1702) p.84 no.141 (following Barberini schedae); Maittaire (1732) p.40, no.94; Chandler (1763) p.133, no.38; CIL VI.3 no.23878 [Hübner] (1886)

Online: EDCS-13301075 [accessed 21/07/15]

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 MS. cod. Vat. Lat. 7113 Doni Giovanni Battista [Donius] 1594-1647 MS. Barb. Lat. 2756 Doni Giovanni Battista [Donius] 1594-1647 BN Naples, MS G.XII.75 [digital scan] Fabretti R. 1702 Inscriptionum antiquarum quae in aedibus paternis asseruantur explicatio et additamentum Rome 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 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. 17872-3 vol.2 Warburg facsimile