INSCRIPTION

Honourific inscription to a prominent Corinthian official by his wife and children

"INSCRIPTION TEXT"

1 [L(ucio) A]nto[nio]
[L(uci) f(ilio)] Ṃẹ[n(inia)] Pr[isco],
[aed]ịḷị [et cu]r(atori) ạ[nnonae],
[pr]aef(ecto) [i(ure) d(icundo) et I]Ịv[iralib(us) et]
5 [II]vir(alibus) q(uinquennalibus) [ornamentis]
   honoṛato [d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)].
   ex testa[mento]
L(ucius) L(uci) Anṭ[oni — — — —]
 et An[tonia — — — e]ṭ P[risca]
10 Saụ[feia L(uci) Antonii li]ḅeri et
[--- G]ạlla    uxor
  Inscription Type: Honourific inscription
  Date: mid. 2nd c. CE
  Location:

Corinth, forum, central part of the South Stoa

  Museum (Storage Place:
  Inv. no:
  Name of Woman Sau[feia] P[risca]
  Civic Presence (Social Role Represented): Bestowed honours
   Comments:

Fourteen fragments of a block of white marble streaked with green. Inscription in honour of her father [L. A]nto[nius L. 1. -]e[ ] Pr[ ], erected from money received from his will (ex testamento) by the person, her mother [G]alla (COR 288), her brothers and her sister Antonia (COR 32). The restoration of the tribe as Me[n(inia)] and that of the cognomen as Priscus are speculative, since other names such as Primus, Probus or Proculus would fit the space as well (see the remarks on RP I, COR 69).

  Bibliography:

Corinth VIII.3, 177, ll. 9-10; RP I, COR 549.

  Author: Giorgos Mitropoulos
  Added: 2024-08-07
  Edited: