The Inscription of Flavia Concordia
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- Type
- Frontal slab of the sarcophagus.
- Material(s)
- Limestone.
- Execution
- Inscribed.
- Dimensions
- 47 × 78 cm
- Epigraphic Field
- 47 × 78 cm
- Letters Height
- 5-6 cm
Palaeographic comment
Dextrograde direction, vertical module, regular ductus, triangular punctuation, groove shallower near the right margin.
According to Bertolini, the inscription would be “among the most perfect and, in every respect, flawless, considering the period.”
In reality, the difficulty of the lapidary in arranging the text is evident, as shown by the irregular module: letters near the right margin are more compressed laterally.
The letter A sometimes shows a broken median stroke; E and F are laterally compressed, each with three short arms; the only distinguishing feature of the letters is the upper arm, which in F is longer than in the others and oblique, rising to the right.
M consists of four oblique strokes.
N has vertical side strokes.
INSCRIPTION
INTERPRETATIVE TRANSCRIPTION
APPARATUS CRITICUS
TRANSLATION
Flavia Concordia placed a coffin (or sarcophagus) for herself from her own property.
If anyone wishes to open it, he/she will pay ten Roman pounds of silver to the fiscus (treasury).
PEOPLE
Flavia Concordia
- NOMEN
- Flavia
- COGNOMEN
- Concordia
- GENS
- Flavia
- ORIGIN (of the name Concordia)
- latin
- GENDER
- female
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- dedicator/deceased
Bibliography
| Bertolini 1874a, 25, nr. 12. |
| Bertolini 1874b, 296, nr. 27. |
| CIL V 8763 |
| ILCV 818 B |
| Lettich 1983, 102, nr. 69. |
- EDR
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EDR097911
- Author of the record:
- Damiana Baldassarra
- Date:
- 26-11-2007
COMMENTARY
The cognomen Concordia is also attested in an inscription from the third century A.D., discovered in the Persico estate in 1893. According to Lettich, the use of a toponym as a personal name is not unusual, citing the example of the burial of Aurelia Alexandria, located only a few metres north of the sarcophagus of Flavia Concordia.