A woman from Arrabona in Rome

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 1994

Millennium. Jahrbuch zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr., 2016

As the title suggests, the present paper offers an analysis of selected letters from Cassiodorus’ Variae, which are important for late antique history of Dalmatia and Pannonia. The study is intended to be twofold: on the one part, it examines the information that can be derived from the letters about both provinces’ political, administrative, economic, social and ethnic picture in the time of Ostrogothic rule over the Eastern Adriatic and Middle Danube regions; on the other part, it explores literary and political contexts and underlying ideologies that are present in the selected letters.

This article offers the first complete survey of aunts (amitae and materterae) in the Latin epigraphical dossier. All 94 inscriptions are listed and commented on, as they offer the potential for intriguing case stories. The set of data is not only used to ask questions about consistent use of terminology, geographical distribution, ages, and patterns of commemoration. The material is also studied in the broader context of the demography of the Roman family, of Greek and Latin family terminology, literary sources, law, papyrology and Greek epigraphy. In the conclusion, this study asks broader questions about the study of the Roman family, and how it relates to questions as Romanisation and modes of funerary expression.

Voprosy Onomastiki, 2018

Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 146, 2023

https://edition.fi/societasscientiarum/catalog/book/657 This book is about cognomina, more specifically the cognomina used by Roman women. Chronologically speaking, the cognomen was the latest component of the Roman onomastic system. Eventually, it was also the last component that survived in the nomenclature of most Romans. The use of individual cognomina started to spread throughout the Roman society in the late Republican period and, during the early Imperial period, the cognomen became the primary individual name of Roman men and women. For women, this development was of particular significance. Throughout the Republican period, most of them seem to have borne only one name, i.e. the feminine form of their father’s nomen gentilicium. In a sense, women in this period were, from an onomastic point of view, seen as members of their patrilineal family or gens rather than as real individuals. This apparent lack of women’s individual names has often baffled scholars, even if it is, by now, clear that women sometimes did have praenomina, i.e. first names of more personal nature. The use of female praenomina, however, was never a universal practice. It was only through the advent of the cognomen that all Roman women, for the first time, received a name that gave them a true individual identity in the public eye.

2022

Archivio della Società romana di storia patria, 2016

In his paper the author deals with a lost late Roman funerary text, Constantius' epitaph. Based on the manuscript tradition, the epitaph was probably erected in Rome or more rather at Ravenna. Constantius was an important military commander of Western Rome in the 5 th century and he had an important role in the fifth century history of Roman Pannonia as he fought against the Barbarians, most probably the Huns who settled down in Pannonia. The earlier identifications must be rejected but his person-unfortunately-cannot be identified with Flavius Constantius Felix. On the other hand, the events (fights against the Huns and the seagoing Vandals) mentioned in the funerary epigram fit perfectly into the period at the beginning of Valentinian III's reign. Our data on the history of the Pannonian provinces afterwards 410 AD are extremely scarce, even the official abandonment and the cession of the province to the Huns are indirectly attested in the late antique written sources. Among them, there is a lost Latin verse funerary inscription having a special importance. Despite the other opinions, the funerary epigram can surely be dated to the 5 th century and was erected to Constantius who Pannoniis gentibus horror erat (CLE 1335=ILCV 66). In my paper I intend to deal with this inscription and Constantius' identification. I wish to examine the text from the point of view of the history of the province, too.

In this paper the author gives a short summary of the question of the late Roman army in Pannonia with special regard to the Notitia Dignitatum and the changes in the military organisation during the 4th-5th centuries. The presence of the foederati in this region was examined again on the basis of antique sources.