The Inscription of Artemisia
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- Type
- Frontal panel of the sarcophagus.
- Material(s)
- Limestone.
- Execution
- Inscribed.
- Dimensions
- 24 × 106 × 8.5 cm
- Epigraphic Field
- 24 × 100 cm
- Letters Height
- 5-6 cm
Palaeographic comment
Dextrograde direction, horizontal alignment, vertical module, regular ductus, triangular interpunction, deep groove, centered layout.
A strongly compressed laterally.
L with short arm.
INSCRIPTION
INTERPRETATIVE TRANSCRIPTION
Claudia Art⸢e⸣mi
=
sia, viva posu
=
it sibi.
TRANSLATION
Claudia Artemisia, while living, set (this sarcophagus) up for herself..
PEOPLE
Claudia Artemisia
- NOMEN
- Claudia
- COGNOMEN
- Artemisia
- GENS
- Claudia
- ORIGIN (of the name Artemisia)
- latin
- GENDER
- female
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- dedicator/deceased
Bibliography
| Bertolini 1877, 30, n. 20. |
| CIL V 8988 |
| Lettich 1983, 107, n. 82. |
- EDR
-
EDR097930
- Author of the record:
- Damiana Baldassarra
- Date:
- 21-11-2007
COMMENTARY
In Concordia, the gentilicium Claudius, which was extremely common during the High Empire, is rarely found in Late Antiquity.
The cognomen Artemisia also does not appear to have other attestations in the city, though it is found in Aquileia and Pola in earlier inscriptions (CIL V 1142 = EDR117787; CIL V 1365 = EDR117815; CIL V 103 = EDR138829).
Artemisia was also the name of the wife of a usurper, possibly Procopius, who fell into ruin when her husband was killed (PLRE I, 111-112).