Une table en bronze inscrite d'Arles : hommages publics et pratiques testamentaires chez les notables d'ascendance italienne

摘要

A bronze tablet, recently discovered in Arles, bears a dedication to an aedile, A. Pompeius Pius, the son of Aulus, from the Sabatina tribe. This tablet was put up by A. Pompeius Amomus, the heir to Kareia Ingenua, Pius's mother, at her request expressed in her will. The origin of the protagonists is revealed by the onomastics : Italian from the North- North-East of Etruria for Pius's Sabatina tribe is characteristic of this region and his mother's gentilicium is also typical of this area. This onomastics refers to an Italian small group which took part in the foundation of Arles. The wording of the testamentary provisions suggests that Pompeius's mother resorted to the trust procedure to have her dead son, an aedile, honored, maybe with a statue. The expenses were to be drawn out from the legacy she had left her freed slave, Pompeius Amomus, responsible for carrying out her will. This tablet is likely to date from the middle of the 1st century.