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78-83 ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
78. P(UBLIUS) (COELIUS)
f. M(arcus) Coelius P(ublii) f(ilius) (ACH 77)
79. (M. COELIUS M. L.) FELIX
CIL III, 504; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 154 [end 1st e. B.C./ beginning 1st c. A.D.].
Patrai; a stone, now lost, bearing the epitaph of the veteran of legio XII Fulminata, M(arcus)
Coelius P(ublii) f(ilius); erected by his libertus Felix and his daughter Coelia Secunda (for the
text see ACH 77).
80. CORNELIA GEMELLA
CIL III, 526; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 131 [2nd c. A.D. (?)].
Patrai; a grave stele used in the masonry of the church of Hagios Basilios in Patrai. It bears the
funerary inscription of M. Vibullius M. f. [- - -] (ACH 251), erected by M. Vibullius
Ven[erianus (?)] (ACH 253) and Cornelia Gemella:
M(arco) Vibullio M(arci) f(ilio) [ ] I v[ix(it)] ann(os) X[ ] I M(arcus) Vibullius
Ven[erianus(?) et] I 4 Cornelia Gemella I post obitum.
81. CORNUFIC[IA] GN(AEI) F(ILIA) MODESTA
CIL III, 7260; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 6 [2nd c. A.D. (?)].
Patrai; a stone, now lost, bearing a dedication of the named person to Diana:
Cornufic[ia] I Gn(aei) f(ilia) Modesta, I polos Cerer(is) I Dianam I 4 s(ua) p(ecunia) consecralvit.
polos Cerer(is)
Remarks: The title polos is the Greek πώλος which refers to the young girls devoted to
Demeter and Kore. It is also the title of the priestess of Isis, who is identified with
Demeter in Egypt (F. Dunant, Religion populaire en Egypt [Leiden 1979] 32 ff). The
gentilicium Cornuficius is very rare (Mócsy, Nomenclator, s.v.).
82. GN(AEUS) (CORNUFICIUS)
CIL III, 7260; *Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 6 [2nd c. A.D. (?)].
Patrai; a stone, now lost, with a dedication by the daughter of Cnaeus to Diana; see text ACH 81.
f. of Cornufic[ia] Gn(aei) f(ilia) Modesta
83. ΚΡΗΣΚΗΣ
A. Rizakis, BCH 108, 1984, 540, no. 7, fig. 7 (SEG 34, 1984, 347); Rizakis, Achaïe II, no. 167
[2nd c. A.D. (?)].
Patrai; a rectangular marble stele bearing the funerary inscription of the gladiator Physon;
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