The Inscription of Roveos
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- Type
- Frontal slab of the sarcophagus.
- Material(s)
- Limestone.
- Execution
- Inscribed.
- Dimensions
- 32 × 111 cm
- Epigraphic Field
- 32 × 111 cm
- Letters Height
- 4-5 cm
Palaeographic comment
INSCRIPTION
INTERPRETATIVE TRANSCRIPTION
Fl(avius) Roveos, centenarius de <numero> equitum comitis (!)
seni(orum) sagit(tariorum), de propio (!) suo arcamarca sibi posuit.
Si quis eam ap⸢e⸣rire
v⸢o⸣lu(erit), dabit fis(ci) viribus
argenti pondo cinque (!).
APPARATUS CRITICUS
2. PROPRIO, Bertolini 1875b,
ILCV 506
.
3. APERIRE, Bertolini 1875a, Bertolini 1875b
VOLV(ERIT), Bertolini 1875a, Bertolini 1875b,
CIL V 8758,
ILCV 506, Holder 1904
.
TRANSLATION
Flavius Roveos, centenarius of the numerus of comitatenses seniores horse-archers, set up this sarcophagus for himself at his own expense.
If anyone should wish to open it, he shall pay five (roman) pounds of silver to the fiscus.
PEOPLE
Flavius Roveos
- NOMEN
- Flavius
- COGNOMEN
- Roveos
- GENS
- Flavia
- ORIGIN (of the name Roveos)
- celtic
- GENDER
- male
- OCCUPATION
- soldier
- RANK
- centenarius
- NUMERUS
- Equites Sagittarii Seniores
- ROLE
- dedicator/deceased
Bibliography
| Bertolini 1875a, 112, nr. 50. |
| Bertolini 1875b, 112, nr. 4. |
| CIL V 8758 |
| ILCV 506 |
| Holder 1904, 1236. |
| Hoffmann 1963, 27-28, nr. 3. |
| Lettich 1983, 65, nr. 23. |
- EDR
-
EDR097906
- Author of the record:
- Damiana Baldassarra
- Date:
- 22-11-2007
COMMENTARY
Flavius Roveos was the centenarius of a numerus of horse-archers, the equites sagittarii seniores, recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum (Not. dign, occ. VI, 43; VII, 159). It appears that the equites sagittarii, along with other cavalry units, were originally part of the emperor's elite guard during the time of Gallienus, before being deployed to garrison the Danubian and Eastern provinces starting from the reign of Aurelian (Rocco 2012, 87).
The cognomen Roveos has Celtic origins according to Holder (Holder 1904, 1236).