Cestronia gens

The gens Cestronia was an obscure plebeian family of ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but several are known from inscriptions.

Members

  • Decimus Cestronius, dedicated a tomb at the site of modern Marano dei Marsi, formerly part of Sabinum, dating from the first half of the first century, for Gaius Cestronius Tappo.[1][2]
  • Gaius Cestronius Tappo, buried at the site of modern Marano dei Marsi, in a tomb dedicated by Decimus Cestronius, dating from the first half of the first century.[1][2]
  • Gaius Cestronius Severianus, buried at Thugga in Africa, aged sixty-five, in a tomb dating from the first half of the second century.[3][4]
  • Lucius Cestronius Fortunatus Egrilianus, a boy buried in a late second- or third-century tomb at Thugga, aged nine years, five (months?).[5][6]

Undated Cestronii

  • Cestronia Fortunata, buried at Thugga, aged forty.[7][8]
  • Cestronius Victor, a child buried at Thugga, aged two.[9]
  • Cestronia Victoria, buried at the site of present-day El Ma El Biodh, formerly part of Numidia, aged forty-two.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 CIL IX, 7965.
  2. 1 2 AE 2011, 317.
  3. ↑ CIL VIII, 26788.
  4. ↑ Mourir à Dougga, 228.
  5. ↑ CIL VIII, 26786.
  6. ↑ Mourir à Dougga, 226.
  7. ↑ Mourir à Dougga, 229.
  8. ↑ Inscriptions Latines de La Tunisie, i. 1–1519.
  9. ↑ Chroniques d'Archéologie Maghrébine, 104–73.
  10. ↑ CIL VIII, 26411.
  11. ↑ Uchi Maius 2, ii. 180.

Bibliography

  • Samir Aounallah et alii, Chroniques d'Archéologie Maghrébine, Revue de l'Association historique et archéologique de Carthage (2022).
  • René Cagnat et alii, L'Année épigraphique (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated AE), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
  • Antonio Ibba, Uchi Maius 2: Le iscrizioni, Sassari (2006).
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  • Alfred Merlin, Inscriptions Latines de La Tunisie (Latin Inscriptions from Tunisia), Fondation Dourlans, Paris (1944).
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