Obultronia gens
The gens Obultronia was an obscure plebeian family at Rome. Most members of this gens are known only from inscriptions, especially a group from Casinum in Latium, and another from Salona in Dalmatia.
Members
[edit]- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Obultronia, erected a monument to Obultronius Lyrasus.[1]
- Aulus Obultronius Beryllus, named in an inscription from Salona in Dalmatia.[2]
- Obultronia Concordia, buried in Dalmatia, aged seven.[3]
- Obultronia Corinthia, the foster-mother of Publius Coelius Quintianus, a child buried at Salona, aged three years and nine months.[4]
- Marcus Obultronius Cultellus, praefectus fabrum, named in a dedicatory inscription from Casinum, addressed to the divine Claudius.[5]
- Marcus Obultronius M. f. Cultellus, possibly the same as the prefect, was one of the duumvirs at Casinum.[6]
- Obultronius Eucarpus, erected a monument to his daughter, Concordia.[3]
- Obultronia Fortunata, the sister of Clodius Zoillus, buried at Salona, aged thirty-two.[7]
- Aulus Obultronius Gratus, one of the severi Mercuriales[i] at Narona in Dalmatia.[8]
- Aulus Obultronius Hermias, erected a monument to his son at Salona.[9]
- Obultronius A. f. Hermias, buried at Salona.[9]
- Obultronius Lyrasus, buried at Rome, aged eighteen.[1]
- Obultronia Nicia, named in an inscription from Salona.[10]
- Obultronia Prisca, the mother of Lucius Staldius Priscus, one of the duumvirs of Casinum.[11]
- Obultronia M. l. Romana, a freedwoman named in an inscription from Salona.[12]
- Obultronius Sabinus, quaestor aerarii in AD 56. Helvidius Priscus, One of the tribunes of the plebs, carried on a private feud with Sabinus, accusing him of misappropriating treasury funds, resulting in the emperor Nero giving this traditional responsibility of the quaestors to a group of prefects. In AD 68, Sabinus was unjustly put to death by Galba in Spain.[13][14][15]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Seviri (sexviri), in this case a college of six priests of Mercury, although the inscription only includes five names.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b CIL VI, 35959.
- ^ CIL III, 1939.
- ^ a b CIL III, 3184c.
- ^ CIL III, 2294.
- ^ CIL X, 5188.
- ^ AE 1946, 175.
- ^ CIL III, 9003.
- ^ CIL III, 1801.
- ^ a b CIL III, 2444.
- ^ CIL III, 1976.
- ^ CIL X, 5205.
- ^ CIL III, 9334.
- ^ Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 28, Historiae, i. 37.
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 2 ("Obultronius Sabinus").
- ^ PIR, vol. II, p. 423.
Bibliography
[edit]- Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, Historiae.
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
- Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).