Original scientific paper
Funerary inscription of the Trosius family from the western city walls of Salona
Dino Demicheli
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,Department of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia University of Zagreb
Abstract
The article presents the reading and interpretation of a tombstone (titulus) found in
the western city walls of Salona. The monument with an inscription was used as a building
material during the construction or renovation of the Salonitan city walls. Gaius Trosius
Saturninus placed the tombstone during his lifetime and the burial plot where the title
was embedded referred to six more members of his family and an unspecified number of
descendants and freedmen. The Trosius family in Salona is confirmed on a small number of
inscriptions, and this monument reveals the largest group of members of the Trosius family
on one inscription in Dalmatia. The inscription mentions several names that are recorded
for the first time in Dalmatia, one of which is a hapax in the entire Empire, and one of which
appears for the first time on Latin inscriptions. The type of monument can be described as
a built-in inscription plaque whose production in Salona is best witnessed in the second
half of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century. Compared to similar monuments, it can be concluded that they were most often erected by the freedmen, which
could also be assumed for the individuals mentioned here. The inscription also provides
the dimensions of the burial plot and, in comparison with such data from other Salonitan
monuments, one could be said that this burial plot was somewhat more spacious than the
average
Keywords
Salona; city walls; spolia; funerary inscriptions; Trosii
Hrčak ID:
322469
URI
Publication date:
15.11.2024.
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