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P. Faianius Plebeius, Forum Novum and Tacitus

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Filippo Coarelli
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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 73 , November 2005 , pp. 85 - 98
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1 CIL IX 4786 = ILS 5767.

2 Translation: ‘P. Faianius Plebeius, duovir for the second time, brought water from his own property to the municipium of Forum Novum at his own expense, built all the fountains, contracted out and approved the outlet [of the water] into the piscina on the campus. And because the vendor of the land on which the baths were built had not provided the buyer with a water supply for the baths, P. Faianius Plebeius conceded his own water supply to these baths, so that the inhabitants of the municipium should not lack this commodity’.

3 See Filippi, G., ‘Regio IV. Sabina et Samnium. Forum Novum’, in Supplementa Italica n.s. 5 (Rome, 1989), no. 14, pp. 181–2Google Scholar. Unfortunately, both fragments that were inserted into the wall of the church of Santa Maria in Legarano have now disappeared.

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5 For example, the so-called Acropolis of Ferentinum (CIL X 5837–40 = I2 1522–5 = ILS 5342–5 = ILLRP 584–6) and the theatrum tectum and Building of Eumachia at Pompeii (CIL X 810–11 =ILS 3785).

6 Cf. Corbier, M., ‘De Volsinii à Sestinum. Cura aquae et évergetisme municipal de l'eau en Italie’, Revue des Études Latines 62 (1984), 253 and 272Google Scholar.

7 On the architectural characteristics of the campus, see Devijver, H. and van Wonterghem, F., ‘Il campus nell'impianto urbanistico delle città romane: testimonianze epigrafiche e resti archeologici’, Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia 20 (1981), 33–68Google Scholar; Devijver, H. and van Wonterghem, F., ‘Ancora sul campus delle città romane’, Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia 21 (1982), 93–8Google Scholar; Devijver, H. and van Wonterghem, F., ‘Der ‘campus’ der Römischen Städte in Italien und im Westen’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984), 195–206Google Scholar; Devijver, H. and van Wonterghem, F., ‘Neue Belege zum ‘campus’ der Römischen Städte in Italian und im Westen’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 60 (1985), 147–58Google Scholar; Bacchielli, L., ‘Campus’, in Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica e orientale, second suppl. I (Rome, 1994), 834–5Google Scholar.

8 Santangelo, M., ‘Cottanello, Forum Novum, Montasola, Montebuono’, Fasti Archeologici 30–1 (1975–1976), 805–6Google Scholar, no. 11781; Filippi, ‘Regio IV’ (above, n. 3), 149–50.

9 The project commenced in 1997 and is directed by Vince Gaffney (University of Birmingham), Helen Patterson (British School at Rome) and Paul Roberts (The British Museum), in collaboration with Salvatore Piro (ITABC–CNR), who is responsible for the georadar survey, and with Giovanna Alvino of the Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici del Lazio. V. Gaffney, H. Patterson and Roberts, P., ‘Forum Novum-Vescovio: studying urbanism in the Tiber valley’, Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001), 59–79Google Scholar; Gaffney, V., Patterson, H., Roberts, P. and Piro, S., ‘Forum Novum–Vescovio: from Roman town to bishop's seat’, in Lazio e Sabina 1. Lavori e studi della Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio (Rome, 2003), 119–26Google Scholar [hereafter ‘Forum Novum 1’]; Gaffney, V., Patterson, H. and Roberts, P., ‘Forum Novum (Vescovio): a new study of the town and bishopric’, in Patterson, H. (ed.), Bridging the Tiber. Approaches to Regional Archaeology in the Middle Tiber Valley (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 13) (London, 2004), 238–51Google Scholar [hereafter ‘Forum Novum 2’]; V. Gaffney, H. Patterson and P. Roberts, ‘Forum Novum-Vescovio: the results of the 2003 field season’, in Lazio e Sabina 2 (in press) [hereafter ‘Forum Novum 3’].

10 The street is easily recognizable from the funerary monuments that align it. It is the most important road axis in the area, originally intended to connect the Via Salaria with the Via Flaminia: Filippi, ‘Regio IV (above, n. 3), 146.

11 Filippi, ‘Regio IV’ (above, n. 3), 182.

12 Cf. ‘Forum Novum 1’, 124; ‘Forum Novum 2’, 245.

13 ‘Forum Novum 1’, 123; ‘Forum Novum 2’, 244.

14 ‘Forum Novum 1’, 123–4; ‘Forum Novum 2’, 244.

15 ‘Forum Novum 3’; P. Roberts, Forum Novum Excavations, September 2003 (Report to the Soprintendenza).

16 This term was first used by Torelli, M., ‘Il ‘diribitorium’ di Alba Fucens e il ‘campus’ eroico di Herdonia’, in Mertens, J. and Lambrechts, R. (eds), Comunità indigene e problemi della romanizzazione nell'Italia centro-meridionale (Brussels, 1991), 461–75Google Scholar.

17 Coarelli, F., ‘Lépide et Alba Fucens’, Revue des Études Anciennes 100 (1998), 39–63CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

18 The possible presence of the piscina in the centre of the complex was first proposed by Paul Roberts in ‘Forum Novum 2’, 244. Excavation could confirm this proposal definitively.

19 On the forum, cf. Santangelo, ‘Cottanello, Forum Novum’ (above, n. 8); Reggiani, A.M., ‘Forum Novum’, in Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica e orientale, second suppl. II (Rome, 1994), 694–5Google Scholar; Alvino, G., ‘Pavimenti musivi del territorio sabino’, in Bragantini, I. and Guidobaldi, F. (eds), Atti del II colloquio dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico Bordighera, 1995), 501–16Google Scholar. A second temple, which can be dated to the beginning of the Imperial period, was excavated in 2004.

20 The fountains were cleaned and recorded during the 2004 excavations.

21 Moretti, A.M. Sgubini, ‘Lucus Feroniae’, in Enciclopedia dell'arte antica, classica e orientale, second suppl. III (Rome, 1994), 473–5Google Scholar.

22 Cf. ‘Forum Novum 2’, 240.

23 Cf. ‘Forum Novum 2’, 240.

24 Solin, H. and Salomies, O., Repertorium Nominum Gentilium et Cognominum Latinorum (second edition) (Hildesheim, 1994), 76Google Scholar.

25 Tacitus, , Annales 1.73.1–2Google Scholar.

26 Syme, R., ‘Personal names in Annals I–VI’, Journal of Roman Studies 39 (1949), 12CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Syme, R., Ten Studies in Tacitus (Oxford, 1970), 68–70, 143Google Scholar; Syme, R., ‘Names and identities in Quintilian’, Acta Classica 28 (1985), 39–46Google Scholar = Syme, R. (ed. Birley, A.R.), Roman Papers III (Oxford, 1988), 630–8Google Scholar; Demougin, S., Prosopographie des chevaliers romains julio-claudiens (Collection de l'École Française de Rome 153) (Rome, 1992), no. 211, pp. 185–6, 215Google Scholar.

27 Translation by G.G. Ramsay (London, 1904). ‘Haud pigebit referre in Faianio et Rubrio, modicis equitibus Romanis, praetemptata crimina … Faianio obiciebat accusator quod inter cultores Augusti, qui omnes domos in modum collegiorum habebantur, Cassium quendam mimum corpore infamem adscivisset, quodque venditis hortis statuam Augusti simul mancipasset … Quae ubi Tiberio notuere, scripsit consulibus non ideo decretum patri suo caelum ut in perniciem civium is honor verteretur. Cassium histrionem inter alios eiusdem artis interesse ludis quos mater sua in memoriam Augusti sacrasset; nee contra religiones fieri quod effigies eius, ut alia numinum simulacra, venditionibus hortorum et domuum accedant. Ius iurandum perinde aestimandum quam si Iovem fefellisset: deorum iniurias dis curae.’

28 See, in particular, Syme, ‘Personal names’ (above, n. 26); Ten Studies (above, n. 26); ‘Names and identities’ (above, n. 26).

29 Koestermann, E., Cornelius Tacitus, Annalen I (Heidelberg, 1963), 238 and 40 (Falanius)Google Scholar; Goodyear, F.R.D., The Annals of Tacitus (Cambridge, 1981), 153 (Faianius)Google Scholar.

30 Koestermann, Cornelius Tacitus (above, n. 29).

31 Syme, Ten Studies (above, n. 26); cf. Schulze, W., Zur Geschichte Lateinischer Eigennamen (Berlin, 1933), 185 and 356Google Scholar.

32 Already by Hübner, , Ephemeris Epigraphica II, 66, 38Google Scholar. This is also the accepted reading inRE VI, col. 1967 (Stein); PIR 2 III, no. 116.

33 Goodyear, The Annals (above, n. 29), 28; de Gubernatis, M. Lenchantin, Cornelii Taciti Libri ab Excessu Divi Augusti I–VI (Scriptores Graeci et Latini 18) (Rome, 1940)Google Scholar.

34 CIL XI 838. On this, cf. Devijver, H., Prosopographia Militiarum Equestrium quae fuerunt ab Augusto ad Gallienum I (Louvain, 1976), 357, no. 22Google Scholar.

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36 Kajanto, I., Latin Cognomina (Helsinki, 1965), 30 and 51Google Scholar.

37 IGR IV 942; Pflaum, , ‘Inscription de Chios (L. Faianius Sabinus)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 7 (1971), 61–3Google Scholar.

38 Syme, ‘Personal names’ (above, n. 26), 12–13.

39 CIL VI 37075 = I2 709 = ILS 8888 = ILLRP 515: [.]aia[n(ius)] M. 1.

40 CIL XIX 1001 (confermed by the presence of another Faianius at Ostia): CIL XIV 4382.

41 CIL IX 2352.

42 Demougin, Prosopographie (above, n. 26): justly critical of Pfiaum's hypothesis (‘inscription de Chios’ (above, n. 37)), which changes modicis to medicis.

43 Filippi, ‘Regio IV’ (above, n. 3), 173–4, nos. 3–4.

44 The remains of an arch perhaps may be recognized in the foundation of a large pillar uncovered during the 2004 excavations.

45 Only part of the top of the head was visible (pointed out by W. Clarke), inserted into the side wall of the church of Santa Maria in Vescovio: it was recovered in July 2004 with the kind permission of the bishop of the Sabina (Monsignor Fumigalli) and of the Ispettrice of the Soprintendenza (Giovanna Alvino).

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47 Boschung, Die Bildnisse des Caligula (above, n. 46), no. 44, p. 119, tab. 35, 6.