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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN ACHAIA
certainly members of the local elite group. The convexity of the plaque suggests that
it might once have been walled into a circular funerary building.
s. of L(ucius) (Aemilius) (ACH 6), b. of P(ublius) Aemilius L(ucii) f. Quir(ina) (ACH 8)
8. P(UBLIUS) AEM[ILIUS L(UCH) F(ILIUS) QUI(RINA)]
Ph. Petsas, AAA 4, 1971, fase. 1, 112-115, pi. 1;R. Frei-Stolba, Talanta 10-11, 1978/79,45 no.
2; ILGR 45; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 156 [end 1st c. B.C.].
Patrai; a slightly convex marble plaque of eight fragments bearing the epitaph of the person and
his brother, who were both centuriones of the 10th legio equestris (for the text see ACH 7).
cent(urio) l[eg(ionis) —]
Remarks: The person was one of the original colonists of Patrai; he belonged, like his brother,
to the legio X Equestris, which, together with the legio XII Fulminata, founded the
colony of Patrai. Perhaps he also followed, as his brother, a municipal career.
s. of L(ucius) (Aemilius) (ACH 6), b. of L(ucius) Aemilius L(ucii) f. Quir(ina) (ACH 7)
9. L(UCIUS) AEMILIUS LA(- - -)
M. Amandry, RN23, 1981, 55-56; RPCl, no. 1286
Dyme, bronze coins
duumvir with C. Iulius Calamus (ACH 135) of the years 31-27 B.C.
10. P(UBLIUS) AEMILIUS PRIMIONIS L(IBERTUS) PRIMIGENIUS
ILGR 70 (AnnÉpigr 1979, 174 no. 579); Rizakis, RPh59, 1985, 92; *id., Achaïe II, no. 111 [2nd
c. A.D.].
Patrai; a marble plaque of seven joining fragments bearing the funerary inscription of the
person erected by his brother Ephebio:
P(ublius) Aemilius I Primionis l(ibertus) I Primigenius I vix(it) an(nos) XXXI I 5 Ephebio
f rat (er).
(PUBLIUS AEMILIUS) PRIMIO: patron of Primigenius, see ACH 199
11. P(UBLIUS) AEMILIUS URBANUS
CIL III, 516; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 109 [lst/2nd c. A.D.].
Patrai; a stone, now lost, bearing the funerary inscription of the person, who died at the age of
35; erected by his mother and sister:
P(ublius) Aemilius Urbanus, I annor(um) XXXV. I Mater et soror I fecerunt Aemilia I 5 Erotis
et I Aemilia Secunda.
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