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Reservation and Membership List (frag.) of Money-Lenders and Stenographers (ca. 200 CE) Rome - Latium


Rome (Latium, Italy — Pleiades map), ca. 200 CE
Werner Eck, “Zur Topographie des Mons Vaticanus in Rom: Eine schola für argentarii und exceptores und zwei unerkannte curatores aedium sacrarum et operum locorumque publicorum,” in M. Aufleger and P. Tutlies, eds., Das Ganze ist mehr als die Summe seiner Teile: Festschrift für Jürgen Kunow anlässlich seines Eintritts in den Ruhestand (Bonn, 2018), 499-507 = AGRW ID# 30541


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Left portion of a marble tablet (70 x 101 x 3.5 cm) discovered in the excavations under St. Peter's basilica. The text was not published in the excavation report from 1951 but a photo appears there, and as of 2020 it has yet to be included in any epigraphic collection. There is at least one missing column of text on the right, and the lower part of the preserved columns is missing too. The text mentions a place reserved for a group of money-lenders (argentarii, 3 names are preserved) and stenographers (exceptores, 23 names are preserved), which Werner Eck views as a collegium.

This is the place that was licensed to the money-lenders and copyists by Servius Calpurnius Verianus and Quintus Julius . . ., curators of temples, public works and spaces. It was dedicated on the 12th of March during the consulships of . . . and . . . with Publius Calpurnius Name . . . supervising.

(column 1) Money-lenders: Publius Terentius Adiectus, Cnaeus Aelius Domesticus, Caius Paesidius Tertius. Stenographers: Caius Baebius Hermes, Tiberius Salonius Valentinus, Quintus Sulpicius Theomnestus, Tiberius Salonius Florentinus, Titus Flavius Genialis, Lucius Novius Montanus, Lucius Vibius Trophimus, Publius Aelius Sotericus, Lucius Titius Fortunatus, . . .

(column 2) Lucius Plautius . . ., Caius Titius . . ., Publius Oclatius . . ., Titus Aurelius . . ., Lucius Anteius . . ., Lucius Potius . . ., Lucius Ofilius . . ., Cnaeus Calceius . . ., Sextus Julius . . ., Lucius Murrenius . . ., Publius Aelius . . ., Sextus Quin. . ., Sextus . . .

Translation by: Richard Last



Loc(us) adsigna(tus) ar[gentariis et exceptoribus a] | Ser(vio) Calpurnio Veriano, Q(uinto) Iulio [--- curat(oribus) aed(ium) sacrar(um) et | oper(um) locorumq(ue) public(orum).] Dedicat(a/um) III Ìd(us) Ṃ[art(ias/aias)---, ---, co(n)s(ulibus)] | curante P(ublio) Calpurnio Epi[---] ||

{column 2}
Argentari(i): | P(ublius) Terentius Adiectus, | Cn(aeus) Aelius Domesticus, | C(aius) Paesidius Tertius. | Exceptores: || C(aius) Baebius Hermes, | Ti(berius) Salonius Valentinus, | Q(uintus) Sulpicius Theomnestus, | Ti(berius) Salonius Florentinus, | T(itus) Flavius Genialis, || L(ucius) Novius Montanus,| L(ucius) Vibius Trophimus, | P(ublius) Aelius Sotericus, | L(ucius) Titius Fortunatus, || ------

{column 2}
L(ucius) Plaut[ius ---], | C(aius) Titiu[s ---], | P(ublius) Oclatiụ[s ---], | T(itus) Aureli[us ---], | L(ucius) Anteiụ[s ---], || L(ucius) Plotiu[s ---], | L(ucius) Ofiliu[s ---], | Cn(aeus) Calce[ius ---], | Sex(tus) Iuli[us ---], | L(ucius) Murreṇ[ius ---], || P(ublius) Aẹliu[s ---], | Sex(tus) Quiṇ[---], | Ṣẹx̣(tus) F̣[---], | ------

Item added: February 19, 2020
Item modified: February 19, 2020
ID number: 30541
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