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Sacello del Silvano

G0011 - A FIRE FIGHTER THANKS CARACALLA AND SILVANUS

- West wall, on a painting of Silvanus, to his left, in a tabula ansata.
- Wirth 1934, 139.
- CIL XIV S, 4530; CIL XIV S II, p. 845.
- Solin 1967, Tav. 56a.
- Bakker 1994, 145-146, 159 ff. and fig. 22, 260-261, pl. 86:

COH(orte) VI [CIL: VII?] (centuria) OST(iensis) IMP(erante)
AN(tonino) CO(n)S(ulibus) L(a)ETO ET CE
RIALE SEBARIVS
CALPVRNIVS, X

- Solin 2020, nr. 5: interprets the first word as coh(ortis).

The X is in an ansa of the tabula. In 1870 the words EX VISO were seen on the painting, in large purple letters. They have disappeared. Presumably they had been applied "dry".

Interpretation: "Calpurnius, night-watchman from the centuria of Ostiensis, from the sixth cohors, during the reign of Caracalla, in the year of consuls Laetus and Cerialis (= 215 AD), X". "Sebarius" = "sebaciarius", night-watchman, perhaps a colloquial form of the word (Solin regards it as another word with the same meaning). The X means "vota decennalia".

- Bakker
- Catalogo Generale Beni Culturali 1200065798


G0014 - A NAME

- On the east wall.
- Bakker 1994, 258: CAMAND[---], but:
- Solin 2020, nr. 5: Scamandri. The S seems certain.

Interpretation: Bakker thought of Caius Amandus, the cognomen Scamander seems correct however.

- Eric Taylor
- Animation, Eric Taylor
- Brenders 2015
- Catalogo Generale Beni Culturali 1200065799


G0012 - A VISIT BY MARIUS AND ANNA

- On the east wall.
- Bakker 1994, 159 ff. and fig. 23, 258: MARIVS | ANNA | VII KAL MAIAS, leaf.

Interpretation: Marius, Anna, VII Kal Maias = April 25th. On this day two religious feasts are known: the Robigalia and the Sarapia. Robigus was a deity protecting grain. His feast is a good candidate, because the Sacello belongs to a bakery, the Caseggiato dei Molini, I,III,1. The Sarapia on the other hand would refer to the Egyptian grain.

- Bakker
- Brenders 2015
- Brenders 2015
- Brenders 2015 (leaf to the right)


G0013 - A CONSULAR DATE

- On the east wall, below G0012.
- Bakker 1994, 159 ff. and fig. 22, 258: CERIALE.

Interpretation: Ceriale, a short way to indicate the year 215 AD, Cerialis being one of the two eponymous consuls, together with Laetus. Cf. G0011; probably the hand of Calpurnius.

- Bakker
- Brenders 2015 (bottom)
- Brenders 2015 (bottom)
- Catalogo Generale Beni Culturali 1200065800


CETERA

- G0735. West wall, modern: "VV il re" ("Long live the king!"), changed into "ΛΛ il re" ("Down with the king!"). Brenders 2015