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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ACHAIA
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15. AEQUANA
ILGR 75; *Rizakis, Aciïaie //, no. 118 [2nd c. A.D.]
Patrai, found at the crossroads of Ermou Str. and Corinthou Str.; marble plaque bearing the
funerary inscription of a libertus of the person: Antae, I Aequanae lib(erto).
Remarks: The patroness of a freedman is usually referred to only with her gentilicium, whereas
the patron is normally indicated by his praenomen, cf. Thylander, Épigraphie
latine, 63; G. Fabre, Libertus. Recherches sur les rapports patron-affranchi à la fin
de la République romaine (Rome 1981) 116-17. For her social status see ACH 17.
The person belongs certainly to the known family of Patra's Aequani; see below
ACH 16.
16. AEQUANA SEX(TI) F(ILIA) MUSA
CIL III, 510; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 5,1. 4-6 [beginning of the imperial era].
Patrai; a stone, now lost, with an inscription commemorating the offices of the named
person, who was honoured by a decree of the decuriones with an image and two statues:
Aequanae I Sex(ti) f(iliae) Musae I sacerd(oti) Dianae lAug(ustae) Laphriae et I 5 sac(erdoti)
Aug(usti) imagine I et statuis II (duabus) [hjon(orata) I d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) I Sex(tus)
Anus I pa[t(er)].
sacerd(os) Dianae Aug(ustae) Laphriae et sac(erdos) Aug(usti)
Remarks: Aequana Musa, member of one of the most important colonial families in Patrai,
was the priestess of both Augustus and Diana Augusta Laphria. Outside Patrai the
gentilicium is rare in the Greek provinces. It is known only by an inscription
from Olympia (IvO 361; cf. EL 11) and another from Thessalonike (IG X. 2, 1,
628a).
17. (AEQUANUS) ANTAS AEQUANAE LIB(ERTUS)
ILGR 75; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 118 [2nd c. A.D.].
Patrai, found at the crossroads of Ermou Str. and Corinthou Str.; marble plaque bearing the
funerary inscription of a libertus of the person:
Antae, I Aequanae lib(erto).
Remarks: Antas is attested as a male cognomen at Caesarea Mauretania, Athens and Rome, see
Rizakis, 7oc. cit. The position of his cognomen at the head of the onomastic formula
stresses his inferiority and is used when the patron himself was a freedman, see G.
Fabre, Libertus. Recherches sur les rapports patron-affranchi à la fin de la
République romaine (Rome 1981) 104-05.
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