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Author: Loredana Cappelletti

CAPInv. 1090: Rose(n)ses

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area Southern Italy with Sicily
ii. Region Campania
iii. Site Pozzuoli (anc. Puteoli)

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) Rose(n)ses (CIL X 8182, l. 5)
ii. Full name (transliterated) Rose(n)ses

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 1 - 70 AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

ii. Name elements
Professional:Rose(n)ses: Roses dealers?, see Dubois 1907: 61-2.

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) CIL X 8182 (AD 1-70)
Note See also: EDR113697
Online Resources TM 256372 and EDR113697
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Funerary inscription in Latin, most likely part of a funerary monument, set up by M. Aplanius Marcellus, son of Quintus, for himself, for his daughter Aplania, his freedwoman and for the Rose(n)ses.
i.c. Physical format(s) Rectangular stone slab
ii. Source(s) provenance Found in Pozzuoli, via Campana; this area was part of a necropolis.

VII. ORGANIZATION

iii. Members Referred to as Rose(n)ses.
ix. Privileges All members were offered the possibility of being buried in the burial space donated by M. Aplanius Marcellus.

VIII. PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS

iii. Income M. Aplanius Marcellus provided the Rosenses with a funerary monument.

IX. MEMBERSHIP

ii. Gender Men
Women
Note Male and female members as well, if, as seems very probable, M. Aplanius Marcellus, his daughter and his liberta (l. 5) were members.
iii. Age Adults
Note Adults if, as seems very probable, M. Aplanius Marcellus was a member. The age of his daughter and his freedwoman are unknown.
iv. Status M. Aplanius Marcellus (accepting that he was a member) was a Roman citizen (enrolled in the tribus Collina). There was also a freedwoman (accepting that she was a member).
v. Relations There were members of the same family, the Aplanii (accepting that they were members).

XII. NOTES

i. Comments It cannot be excluded the opinion by Camodeca 1980-1981: 125-6, n. 197, according to which the Rose(n)ses were not a professional association, but a collegium funeraticium.
iii. Bibliography Camodeca, G. (1980-1981), ‘Ricerche su Puteoli tardoromana (fine III – IV secolo)’, Puteoli 4-5: 59-128.
Dubois, Ch.-A. (1907), Pouzzoles antique. Histoire et topographie. Paris.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Certain
Note Nature and content of the text strongly imply a private funerary association.