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Ancient Tombs and Inscriptions

Ancient Tombs and Inscriptions. HODIE. What do you find on a tombstone today? Dates Name Picture Inscription. Hodie. HERI.

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Ancient Tombs and Inscriptions

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  1. Ancient Tombs and Inscriptions

  2. HODIE • What do you find on a tombstone today? • Dates • Name • Picture • Inscription

  3. Hodie

  4. HERI

  5. This marble relief was carved to fit into the facade of a stone tomb that probably stood along a major road outside the city of Rome. The Latin inscription names the three figures as SextusMaeliusStabilio, VesiniaIucunda, and SextusMaelius Faustus. The use of "L" as an abbreviation for Libertus indicates that the men were the freed slaves of SextusMaelius and that the woman was freed by a Roman matron named Vesinia. • The handshake shared by the older man and the woman identifies them as husband and wife. Iucunda wears a bride's veil and ring, and she holds her left hand to her face in a wife's traditional gesture of modesty. The younger man is probably the couple's son, born to them while they were still slaves. He may have been responsible for commissioning this monument. The emphasis on the symbols of marriage evident in this relief reflects the importance attached to the family during the reign of the Emperor Augustus.

  6. Tomb of CaeciliaMetellaFamilia

  7. Tomb of Gaius Sestius

  8. Via Appia

  9. Pompeii

  10. Pompeii

  11. Pompeii

  12. Pompeii

  13. HERI

  14. “imagines”

  15. Columbarium

  16. Basic tomb inscription 1.DM or DISMANIBUS=to the shades of the Underworld 2.For whom is this monument built(dative) 3.Vixit________annos 4.Who built it=FC(nominative case) FC=fecitNom.casefecit. 5.Occupations of the dead

  17. Long inscription • VIBIA DROSIS • FECIT SIBI • ET SVIS POSTERISQ{UE} • VibiaDrosis • Made this for herself • And her posterity

  18. Longer inscription • C VIBIVS FELIX • VIXIT ANNIS XXXXIX • VIBIA DROSIS FECIT PATRO • SVO CARISSIMO • PATRO=PATER OR PATRUUS? • What do you know about VibiaDrosis?

  19. translation • C VIBIVS FELIX=Gaius Vibius Felix • VIXIT ANNIS XXXXIX=lived 49 years • VIBIA DROSIS FECIT PATRO=VibisDrosis made this for her very dear father/uncle • SVO CARISSIMO

  20. longest inscription • DIS MANIBVS= • M DOMITIVS PRIMIGENTIVS FECIT SIBI ET • SVIS LIBERTIS LIBERTABVSQ • POSTERISQVE EORVM=

  21. DIS MANIBVS=to the shades of the Underworld • M DOMITIVS PRIMIGENTIVS FECIT SIBI ET=Marcus Domitius 1st born made for himself and • SVIS LIBERTIS LIBERTABVSQ=his freed men and women • POSTERISQVE EORVM= and their descendents

  22. What can an inscription tell us about their society? • Relationship between members including slaves • Occupations of people • Family size • Women had money • Yes, they really used all this grammar!

  23. FINE

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