Sandstone slab recording an epigram in honour of Salvia. In the middle of the upper surface there was a semicircular cavity for the insertion of a bust of hers. Both this text and a second epigram belonged to a monument set up by an Ἀριστομένης, a sixth-generation descendant in honour of his ancestors. Salvia was of Thessalian origin and was brought to Corinth by her husband, Φλαβιανός (I) (COR 260). She was also the mother of Φλαβιανός (II) (COR 261) and the grandmother of Φλαβιανή (COR 259). Kritzas proposes an identification with the Thessalian woman Salvia married to a wealthy Corinthian landowner mentioned in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. He also suggests that the family might be identified with the Corinthian branch of the gens Gellii and might have had connections with important men of letters such as Herodes Atticus and the philosophers Ti. Flavius Arrianus and Epictetus.

Kριτζάς 1992 (AÉ 1992, 1548); RP I, COR 545