The Inscription of Andia
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- Type
- Frontal slab of the sarcophagus.
- Material(s)
- Limestone.
- Execution
- Inscribed.
- Dimensions
- 51 × 196 cm
- Epigraphic Field
- 51 × 196 cm
- Letters Height
- 4-6 cm
Palaeographic comment
INSCRIPTION
INTERPRETATIVE TRANSCRIPTION
Flavii Servili<i> Otraustaguta e⸢t⸣ Ilateuta Felicitas
F̣ḷavio Andiae, centenario numeri Bracchiatorum
col
=
[legae] [o]ptimo, arcam de labore suo conparavimus (!), qu⸢a⸣m
[arca]m conmendamus (!) sancte (!) aeclesiae (!) <c>ivitatis conco<r>dien
=
sium. Si quis eam ap̣ẹ⸢r⸣ire voluerit dabit fisco auri pondo duo sin
=
e mora
APPARATUS CRITICUS
1. [F]LAVII,
CIL V 8740,
ILCV 503,
EDR097899
E[T],
ILS 2798,
ILCV 503, Hoffmann 1963, Forlati Tamaro 1978; ET, Zovatto 1946
.
2. [F]LAVIO,
ILS 2798
BRAC<C>HIATORVM, Bertolini 1875a, Bertolini 1875b,
CIL V 8740,
ILS 2798,
ILCV 503
.
2-3. [LEGE],
CIL V 8740,
ILCV 503, Forlati Tamaro 1978
.
TRANSLATION
The Flavii Servilii, Otraustaguta, and Ilateuta Felicitas to Flavius Andia, centenarius of the unit of the Bracchiati, their best colleague, have purchased this chest with their own labor, which they entrust to the holy Church of the city of Concordia.
If anyone should wish to open it, he shall pay to the treasury two pounds of gold without delay.
PEOPLE
Flavii Servilii
- NOMEN
- Flavius
- COGNOMEN
- Servilius
- GENS
- Flavia
- ORIGIN (of the name Servilius)
- latin
- GENDER
- unknown
- OCCUPATION
- soldier?
- ROLE
- dedicator
- RELATIONSHIP
- colleague? (→ Flavius Andia)
Otraustaguta
- COGNOMEN
- Otraustaguta
- ORIGIN (of the name Otraustaguta)
- germanic
- GENDER
- male
- OCCUPATION
- soldier
- ROLE
- dedicator
- RELATIONSHIP
- colleague (→ Flavius Andia)
Ilateuta Felicitas
- COGNOMEN
- Ilateuta
- COGNOMEN
- Felicitas
- ORIGIN (of the name Ilateuta)
- germanic
- ORIGIN (of the name Felicitas)
- latin
- GENDER
- female
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- dedicator
Flavius Andia
- NOMEN
- Flavius
- COGNOMEN
- Andia
- GENS
- Flavia
- ORIGIN (of the name Andia)
- germanic
- GENDER
- male
- OCCUPATION
- soldier
- RANK
- centenarius
- NUMERUS
- Bracchiati
- ROLE
- deceased
- RELATIONSHIP
- colleague (→ Otraustaguta)
Bibliography
| Bertolini 1875a, 111, nr. 49. |
| Bertolini 1875b, 111, nr. 3. |
| CIL V 8740 |
| ILS 2798 |
| ILCV 503 |
| Zovatto 1946, 82-83. |
| Brusin, Zovatto 1960, 92-93. |
| Hoffmann 1963, 37-38, nr. 14. |
| Forlati Tamaro 1978, 150, nr. 8. |
| Lettich 1983, 77-79, nr. 34. |
- EDR
-
EDR097899
- Author of the record:
- Damiana Baldassarra
- Date:
- 22-11-2007
COMMENTARY
The most convincing interpretation is that proposed by Lettich. The plural Flavii Servilii should be understood as referring to two or more members of the same family rather than to a single individual (Flavius Servilius). The names Otraustaguta and Ilateuta Felicitas appear to designate a couple, as suggested by the conjunction et and by the combination of the Germanic Ilateuta with the Latin cognomen Felicitas. Together, the Flavii Servilii, Otraustaguta, and Ilateuta Felicitas dedicated the inscription to Flavius Andia, described as collega optimus and centenarius of the numerus Brachiatorum. The interpretation of Zovatto, who considered Andia a fabricensis, is unlikely, since such affiliation would normally be explicit in the text. The inscription thus appears to be a military dedication by a group of comrades, possibly of Ostrogothic origin, to their superior officer