A Roman Fleet Soldier’s Gravestone from Scarbantia (TRHR 38)

Péter Kovács

A Roman Fleet Soldier’s Gravestone from Scarbantia (TRHR 38)

Publication date: 17.05.2024

ELECTRUM, 2024, Volume 31, pp. 143 - 151

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.24.011.19161

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A Roman Fleet Soldier’s Gravestone from Scarbantia (TRHR 38)

Abstract

In his paper the author deals with a funerary verse epitaph from Scarbantia (Sopron) published by him earlier (TRHR 38). Based on his new restoration, the gravestone (stela) was erected to a veteran by his wife who served earlier as fleet soldier. He was most probably called Britto. Several vulgar Latin phenomena can be observed in the inscription that was erected in the second half of the third century or at the very beginning of fourth c. The type of the metrical formula resiste viator et lege can be found in several Pannonian verse inscriptions. Based on the pieces of information given in the problematical parts of lines 2 and 3 that concern the wife, at least one line is missing at the beginning of the text and she erected the grave monument and the funerary epitaph to herself as well.

Keywords

Latin epigraphy, Pannonia, Roman army, Carmina Latina, vulgar Latin

Abbreviations

CLE – F. Bücheler, E. Lommatzsch (eds.), Carmina Latina epigraphica, vols. 3, Leipzig 1895–1926.

CLEPann – P. Cugusi, M. T. Sblendorio Cugusi, Studi sui carmi epigrafici. Carmina Latina Epigraphica Pannonica, Bologna 2007.

EE – Ephemeris Epigraphica, Berlin 1872–1913.

ICUR – I. B. De Rossi, Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae septimo saeculo antiquiores, 3 vols., Roma 1857–1915.

ILCU – E. Diehl, Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, vol. 4, Berlin–Dublin–Zürich 1925–1967.

RIU – L. Barkóczi, A. Mócsy et al., Die römischen Inschriften Ungarns, 6 vols., Budapest–Amsterdam–Bonn 1972–2001.

ThLL – Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.

Tit. Aq. – P. Kovács et al., Tituli Aquincenses, 3 vols., Budapest 2009–2011.

TRHR – P. Kovács, Tituli Romani in Hungari reperti. Supplementum, Budapest–Bonn 2005.

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