Tifernia gens
The gens Tifernia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens appear in history, but several are known from inscriptions.
Origin
[edit]All of the Tifernii known from inscriptions from outside of Rome came from Umbria, including at least three from the town of Tifernum Tiberinum, Tifernum on the Tiber.[1] Unless the town was named after the Tifernia gens, the Tifernii must have obtained their nomen from their town of origin.
Members
[edit]- This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
- Gaius Tifernius C. f. Sabinus, a youth buried at Tifernum Tiberinum in Umbria, aged fifteen, in a tomb dating from the early first century.[2]
- Gaius Tifernius Alcibiades, a soldier serving in the fifth cohort of the vigiles at Rome in AD 210.[3]
- Lucius Tifernius L. f. Verus, a native of Fanum Fortunae in Umbria, was a soldier in the twelfth urban cohort at Rome in AD 218.[4]
Undated Tifernii
[edit]- Tifernius Prudens, the father of Tifernia Sabina, a woman buried at Tifernum Tiberinum.[5]
- Tifernia Sabina, daughter of Tifernius Prudens, buried at Tifernum Tiberinum, in a tomb dedicated by Venia and Aruntia Ampiana.[5]
- Tifernius Severus, dedicated a tomb at Rome for his mother, Satellia Severa.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1854).