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dia universitatis her editati, letnik 3 (2015), številk a 2 84Tulliae Septiminaethe form annos, is common from 2nd century AD.
animae inocentissimae
hereditatiquae vixit annis VI mens(ibus) VIIII
diebus VII Tullia Privata
mater in(f)elicissima
“To Tullia Septimina, of the most innocent
soul, who lived to 6 years, 9 months, 7
days, Tullia Privata, the most unfortunate
mother”
This funerary monument mentions two fe-
male persons, the deceased daughter and her
mother who erected the monument.
The daughter, who died quite young, jud-
ging by the two names, was a Roman citizen by
birth.
Nomen gentile Tullia belongs to one of the
most ancient Roman gens, whose patrician branch
was already extinct in the early Republic. The
name (except for a few notable individuals, of
whom Marcus Tullius Cicero is the most famous
one) was common among freedmen.107
Cognomen Septimina has an origin from a
common Roman practice of giving nicknames re-
lated to number of children in big families, which
later became an usual cognomen.108
Cognomen Privata is a frequent Roman sur-
name of Latin origin.109 The highest number of in-
scriptions with this name come from Italy.110 The
word itself derives from the practice of giving na-
mes originating from a certain social class.111
Considering all this, both persons were Ro-
man citizens and their Latin names might indi-
cate that they were of Italic origin. While the
mother might have been a freedman, the dece-
ased daughter probably received citizenship by
birth.
This monument can be dated on the ba-
sis of several epighrapical and onomastical featu-
res. First is the use of the form annis, which along
107 Smith, A Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Antiquities, 1183.
108 Matijašić, Uvod u latinsku epigrafiju, 61-62.
109 Alföldy, Die Personennamen in der Römischen Provinz Dalmatia,
341.
110 Mócsy, Nomenclator provinciarum Europae Latinarum et Galliae
Cisalpinae, 232; Lőrincz, Onomasticon provinciarum Europae Lati-
narum, vol. III, 165.
111 Kajanto, The Latin Cognomina, 315.
Secondly, the precise lifetime of the deceased be-
ing recorded on the monument, including years,
months and days, became common in the 3rd cen-
tury A.D.112 Datation of this monument can then
be set in the 3rd century AD.
Bronze plate with inscribed names
of liberated slaves
This inscription (Inscr. It. X. 3. 30; CIL V 501) is
on a fragment of a bronze plate (height: 0,15 m,
width: 0,12 m, thickness: 0,006 – 0,009 m). It
was found near Koper, in the place called Arjol,
between St. Michael and the Lazaretto, on the
estate of Ingaldes, a noble familiy of Koper. It is
unknown how at one point the plate turned up
in Vienna, but now it is kept in the Archaeolo-
gical Museum of Istria, in Pula. The inscription
reads:
---] Magaplina Mati (vel Matt) [---an(no
rum)---, M]agaplina Tertiae lib(erta) [an(o-
rum)--]
Magaplina Tertiae [lib]erta an(norum) [---]
[Ma]
gaplina Raeci f(ilia) an(nnorum) LX [--
Maxi]ma
f(ilia) an(norum) X[--- Magaplin]us Maxi-
mae filiae
f(ilius) an(norum) [---] Magaplinus [Ma]
rcellae
lib(ertus) an(norum) [---] Magaplinus [M]
arcel
lae lib(ertus) [an(norum) ---], Magaplina
[Mar]cellae
lib(erta) [an(norum)---
“Magaplina Mati, years
Magaplina, freedwoman of Tertia, years
Magaplina, freedwoman of Tertia, years
Magaplina, daughter of Raecus, years 60,
daughter Maxima
years 10, Magaplinus, son of daughter of
Maxima, years, Magaplinus, freedman of
Marcella, years, Magaplinus, freedman of
112 Keppie, Understanding Roman Inscriptions, 107