INSCRIPTION

Dedication of Marcia Secunda to her husband

"INSCRIPTION TEXT"

1 Ti(berio) Claudio Satyro
 vilico XX heredit(atium)
 ornament(is) august(alibus)
 d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) honorato
5 Marcia Secunda
vac. uxor. vac.
  Inscription Type: Funerary / Honourific inscription
  Date: 2nd c. CE (?)
  Location: Patrae, at the street Kanakari, n. 40-42
  Museum (Storage Place: Archaeological Museum of Patrae
  Inv. no:
  Name of Woman Marcia Secunda
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Bestowed honours
   Comments: Marcia Secunda dedicated a stele to her husband, Tiberius Claudius Satyrus, who was a tax collector (vilicus) of the tax of 5%, charged on the heritages of Roman citizens (vicesima hereditatium) and was honoured with the ornamenta augustalia by the decuriones.
  Bibliography:

Rizakis, Achaïe II, αρ. 128; RP I, ACH 163.

  Author: Giorgos Mitropoulos
  Added: 2024-05-16
  Edited: 2024-05-16