Un’inedita iscrizione funeraria da Sipontum

Abstract

A funerary epigraph recovered in Siponto, dating back to the Augustan age, documents exponents
of the Kania gens. The same nomen is borne by the wife of a supra cubicularios of Marcus Agrippa.
The general intervened in Siponto in 40 BC. reconquering the Adriatic port to Octavian’s forces;
in the same years (40/39 BC) his patronage of the nearby port of Egnatia is documented.

Keywords: Sipontum, Kanii, Marcus Agrippa.