FUNERARY INSCRIPTION OF MARITIMUS AND QUINTA, 1-25 CE. CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS Maritimi / Antoniae Drusi (scil. uxoris) l(iberti), / rogatoris. // Quintae / Antoniae Drusi (scil. uxoris) l(ibertae), / cantricis. "(Tomb) of Maritimus, freedman of Antonia (Minor), (wife) of Drusus, employed for receiving guests. (Tomb) of the singer Quinta, freedwoman of Antonia (Minor), (wife) of Drusus." These two people, freed slaves working in the household of the powerful imperial woman Antonia Minor, have a simple marble plaque to mark their tomb, with their inscriptions put into two tabulæ ansatæ inscribed rather abstractly onto the marble. It was fixed to the tomb with three iron nails, which have left large rush haloes on the marble. Maritimus was a rogator or greeter, and Quinta was a singer, for Antonia Minor in her widowhood, after the death of her husband Drusus, brother of the emperor Tiberius.
This #EpigraphyTuesday offers us a simple funerary inscription now in the #CapitolineMuseums, identifying the occupants of a tomb outside the Porta Tiburtina of #Rome as a married couple, freed slaves, Maritimus and Quinta, from the household of #AntoniaMinor, wife of #Drusus. #AncientBluesky 🏺
