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A New Fragment of the Arval Acta

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

J. M. Reynolds
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While excavating a mausoleum associated with the destroyed church of Santa Rufina (beside the Via Cornelia, the modern Via di Boccea) in 1968, Lady Wheeler found several fragmentary inscriptions, including one which deserves separate publication because it contains part of an entry from the Arval Acta for the early second century A.D. Its presence there is of interest both for the history of the site and for that of the Arval monuments from the Vigna Ceccarelli, which seem to have been broken up and to some extent dispersed in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. Most of the dispersed pieces have been recovered in the city of Rome or its immediate neighbourhood, but this one went rather farther afield, presumably in a load of building material brought out from the city to the site. It is in fact valuable evidence for the use of material from the city in the Christian buildings of South Etruria at this date.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 37 , November 1969 , pp. 158 - 160
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1969

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1 I am most grateful to her for the opportunity to publish the fragment; as also to Dr. P. Zaccagni, who made it possible for me to compare it with the fragments of the Arval Acta now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, and to Padre A. Ferrua, S.J., who allowed me to see and helped me to compare the specially relevant fragments from the catacomb of Calepodius.

2 See Henzen, W., Acta Fratrum Arvalium (Berlin, 1874), p. xxvGoogle Scholar, for the evidence on the destruction of the Arval monuments and p. xx for a list of findspots of dispersed fragments; for subsequent discoveries add Pasoli, A., Acta Fratrum Arvalium quae post annum MDCCCLXXIV reperta sunt (Bologna, 1950)Google Scholar, Panciera, S., ‘Due novità epigrafiche romane’ in Atti Acc. Naz. Linc., xxiii (1968), 315 fGoogle Scholar. with bibliography of recently found fragments, p. 315, n. 2—most important for this article is Ferrua, A., Bull. Comm., lxxviii (1961–1962), 116 f.Google Scholar, giving parts of the record for A.D. 109–112 inclusive, found in the catacomb of Calepodius.

3 See Henzen, l.c., p. 39 f.

4 See Henzen, l.c., p. 42.

5 He is, however, recorded as promagister in A.D. 118.

6 See Ferrua l.c., pl. I. Type of marble, letter forms, sizes and interlineations correspond very closely; the fragment is thicker than what survives of the inscribed areas of the tablet for 109–112, but not than its margins.

7 See A. and Gordon, J., Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions from Rome and its Neighbourhood II (Berkeley, 1964)Google Scholar, pl. 78 b.

8 See Gordon l.c., pl. 73 b.

9 See Gordon l.c., pl. 69 a.

10 See Henzeh l.c., pp. 3, 4.

11 Cf. IGRR IV, 172.

12 The identification is not certain, however; see PIR l.c.