Original scientific paper
Quintus Fabius Sanga – a senatorial freedman in the inscription from Cavtat?
Dino Demicheli
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Niko Kapetanić
Abstract
The paper analyzes a secondary used Roman epigraphic monument incorporated into the church of St George (Sv. Đurađ) in Cavtat. The fragment has already been noticed, but not read or interpreted. Only name in the tria nomina form has been preserved in the inscription, and information that the deceased was a freedman. Paleographic characteristics of the monument indicate dating to the middle or second half of the 1st century BC. The paper suggests earlier dating on the basis of contextualizing information about the mentioned person’s name. The inscription mentions Quintus Fabius Sanga, a freedman of Quintus. The authors find a connection between this name and a member of the Roman Senate from a prominent Roman family Fabia in the Late Republican period and events on the eastern Adriatic coast during the Civil war between Pompey and Caesar. After the comparison with the remaining epigraphic material from the region of ancient Epidaurum, a conclusion is made that this inscription might be the monument with the earliest dating from the mentioned site.
Keywords
Cavtat; Epidaurum; spolia; epigraphic monuments; Q. Fabius Sanga; onomastics; Roman Republic
Hrčak ID:
266603
URI
Publication date:
2.12.2021.
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