DIS MANIBVS
C[AIO] GENTIO VALENTI MILITI
EX CLASSE PRAETORIA[NA] MISE
NENSE EX IIII MINER[VA] NATION[E]
DALM[ATICA] VIX[IT] ANN[IS] XL IN HIS MIL[ITAVIT] ANN[IS]
XIX HEREDES BENE MERITO
TONATIVS SEVER[VS] ET METTIVS SEVE[RVS]
Translation
FOR GAIUS GENTIUS VALENS,
A MARINE IN THE PRAETORIAN FLEET AT MISENUM,
ON THE QUADREME MINERVA.
HE WAS FROM DALMATIA.
HE LIVED FOR 40 YEARS AND SERVED IN THIS FLEET FOR 19 YEARS.
A WELL-DESERVING MAN.
HIS HEIRS TONATIUS SEVERUS AND METTIUS SEVERUS
HAD THIS MADE FOR HIM.
SOLEMNLY DEDICATED TO
THE SPIRITS OF THE DEPARTED.
Description
Funerary epitaph for Gaius Gentius Valens, Dalmatian (modern day Croatia) seaman in the Misenum Fleet
Italy, AD 98-117, found near Naples, Italy before 1857
acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson from the priest Giuseppe de Criscio, in Pozzuoli Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860
NMR.1125
