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The fragment of a new inscription found in Aquileia, relating to an Augustan sevir from Verona, allows us to reflect on the mobility of people and goods between the Adriatic port and the Venetian city in the late republican and imperial age.

The close examination of some finds from the late antique and Christian period stored in the repository of the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia led to the analysis of a small-sized clay slab, bearing a funerary inscription with a figurative apparatus. The interest of the artifact doesn’t lie so much in the inscribed text, as rather in the terracotta support, a typology anciently known within the funerary environment, but rarely recorded in Aquileia and not yet studied in a systematic and comprehensive way. The analysis of the tiny slab provides the opportunity for a comparative excursus on similar objects which have been observed elsewhere in the Italian peninsula, as well as to evaluate some hypotheses on the possible original location of the artefact. Lastly, this short essay allows us to re-evaluate the occurrences of fictile epitaphs in Aquileia.

This paper aims to reconsider the manuscript by Jacopo Valvasone (1499-1570), formerly owned by the Earl of Leicester (now British Library, Additional MS 49369), which Theodor Mommsen borrowed and inspected in 1876, just before the publication of the second part of CIL V. In the letter that he wrote to thank the Vicar and Librarian of Halkham Hall, Mommsen declared that Valvasone joined “the the long list of forgers”. The analysis of forgeries in Valvasone’s manuscript could show whether Mommsen was right in his opinion.

Si discute dell'evoluzione dell'insiediamento minore romano in età tardoantica nella Venetia et Histria

This paper aims to provide a new interpretation of CIL XI, 6940, an inscription in Piacenza originally belonging to a family funerary monument with tambour which can be dated back to the Augustan Age. I shall comment on the various steps of the cursus undertaken by three male characters remembered by the sepulchral epigraphy, which will be analyzed in relation to epigraphic writings that appear on monuments similar in terms of typology, dating and geographical context of discovery. I will propose a possible interpretation of the phrase "a populo" in the cursus of the dedicant of the inscription.