Un nuovo tabularius e altro materiale epigrafico inedito da Karales

Piergiorgio Floris

Abstract


Examination of two Roman epitaphs discovered in Cagliari in 2020. Although found in a funerary
area, both were divorced from their original context. The first one is engraved on a marble slab almost
fully reassembled from three fragments. The slab bears the complete epitaph of a man. The
deceased was a lib(ertus) tab(ularius) (less likely a lib(ertus) tab(ularii)), i.e., a person in charge of a
tabularium, a structure likely located in Karales whose nature escapes us (was it a public or a private
tabularium?). In case the tabularium was a public one, it could also be that the deceased was an ex
servus publicus. The inscription is also remarkable for its troubled compositional history (more than
one person was probably involved in its execution) and engraving technique. Among other things,
the onomastics of the persons mentioned therein gives the opportunity to study the spread of the
imperial nomen gentilicium Aurelius in Karales and the rest of Sardinia. The second epitaph, which
is incomplete, is engraved on a slab and concerns the freedman of a woman possibly belonging to
the gens Manlia. The titulus, noteworthy onomastically and chronologically (it may be the oldest of
those so far identified in the northwestern funerary area of the city), contains the first Sardinian attestation
of the C retroversa (and the first of the term heredes in Caralitan epigraphy).

Keywords: Funeral inscriptions, Karales, public and private tabularia, onomastics, Aurelii, Sardinia.


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