D[IS] M[ANIBVS]
C[AIUO] IVLI[O] PETRONIANI
EX LIB[VRNA] ARMATA
NAT[O] AEGYPT[IO] VIX[IT] AN[NIS]
XLV MIL[ITAVIT] AN[NIS] XXII
C[AIVS] LONGINVS CLEMENS III
FORTVNA H[ERES] B[ENE] M[ERENTI] F[ECIT]
Translation
FOR GAIUS IULIUS PETRONIANUS,
WHO SERVED ON THE FRIGATE ARMATA.
HE WAS BORN IN EGYPT.
HE LIVED FOR 45 YEARS AND SERVED FOR 22.
A WELL-DESERVING MAN.
HIS HEIR, CAIUS LONGINUS CLEMENS,
A MARINE ON THE TRIREME FORTUNA,
HAD THIS MADE FOR HIM.
Description
Funerary epitaph for Gaius Iulius Petronianus, an Egyptian seaman in the Romany navy
Italy, AD 1-400
acquired by Sir Charles Nicholson probably from the priest Giuseppe de Criscio, in Pozzuoli Italy, 1857-58, donated 1860
NMR.1083
