The Inscription of Ianuarinus
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- Type
- Lateral panel of the sarcophagus.
- Material(s)
- Limestone.
- Execution
- Inscribed.
- Dimensions
- 46 × 35 cm
- Epigraphic Field
- 46 × 35 cm
- Letters Height
- 5 cm
Palaeographic comment
Dextrorse direction, horizontal alignment, vertical module, irregular ductus.
INSCRIPTION
INTERPRETATIVE TRANSCRIPTION
Fl(avius) Ianuarinus, vet(eranus),
de numero Mattia
=
cor(um)
iụnior(um), hic posi
=
tus est. Si quis volue
=
rit sep̣ulcṛum eius ape
=
re fisco argen
=
ti lib(ras) X.
TRANSLATION
Flavius Ianuarinus, a veteran of the numerus of the Mattiaci iuniores, is laid here.
Should anyone wish to open his sepulchre, he shall pay ten (Roman) pounds of silver to the fiscus.
PEOPLE
Flavius Ianuarinus
- NOMEN
- Flavius
- COGNOMEN
- Ianuarinus
- GENS
- Flavia
- ORIGIN (of the name Ianuarinus)
- latin
- GENDER
- male
- OCCUPATION
- soldier
- RANK
- veteranus
- NUMERUS
- Mattiaci Iuniores
- ROLE
- deceased
Bibliography
| Bertolini 1874a, 23, n. 6. |
| Bertolini 1874b, 289, n. 10. |
| CIL V 8751 |
| ILCV 556 |
| Hoffmann 1963, 45, n. 29. |
| Lettich 1983, 89, n. 49. |
- EDR
-
EDR097762
- Author of the record:
- Damiana Baldassarra
- Date:
- 26-11-2007
COMMENTARY
Flavius Ianuarinus was a veteran of the Mattiaci iuniores. He chose not to specify his military rank and perhaps remained a miles (an ordinary soldier) throughout his career. The auxilium palatinum of the Mattiaci iuniores is recorded as being deployed at times in Gaul (ND occ. 5, 167; 7, 64) and at others in the East (ND or. 6, 53).
The inscription does not specify the beneficiary of this sarcophagus.
The sarcophagus of Ianuarinus was located very close to the northern section of the burial ground. A little further south was the burial of Flavius Dassiolus, another member of the Mattiaci iuniores. Further north, however, was the arca of a member of the Mattiaci seniores, Flavius Agustus, the only burial in the northern section of the necropolis that can be identified with certainty as belonging to a soldier.
The arrangement of the archae suggests that the Mattiaci (both iuniores and seniores) were the first numeri to be permanently stationed in Concordia. Conversely, the Batavi, whose burials are concentrated near the southern edge, likely reached the colony at a later stage, characterized by a more massive military presence that led to the creation of distinct burial areas for the various units.