The gens Quartia was an obscure
plebeian family at
ancient Rome
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. No members of this
gens appear in history, but several are known from inscriptions.
Origin
The
nomen ''Quartius'' is a patronymic surname, derived from the
cognomen
A ''cognomen'' (; plural ''cognomina''; from ''con-'' "together with" and ''(g)nomen'' "name") was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions. Initially, it was a nickname, but lost that purpose when it became here ...
''Quartus'', fourth. There may at one time have been a
praenomen ''Quartus'', but it was not in general use in historical times, except in the feminine form, ''Quarta'', which was regularly used as both a praenomen and cognomen.
Members
* Quintus Quartius, dedicated a tomb on
Maiorica in
Hispania Citerior to a woman named Scaraotia, aged twenty.
* Sextus Quartius, dedicated a tomb for Martia, a freedwoman buried at
Carpentoracte in
Gallia Narbonensis.
* Quartia Aphrodisia, mother of Quartia Herois.
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* Titus Quartius Crescentinius, named in a funerary inscription from
Lilybaeum in
Sicily
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* Quartia Herois, daughter of Quartia Aphrodisia, wife of Marcus Publius Posidonius, and mother of Publius Flavianus, buried at
Arelate
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in Gallia Narbonensis, aged twenty-two.
* Quartia Irvatilla, buried at
Massilia
Massalia (Greek: Μασσαλία; Latin: Massilia; modern Marseille) was an ancient Greek colony founded ca. 600 BC on the Mediterranean coast of present-day France, east of the river Rhône, by Ionian Greek settlers from Phocaea, in Western An ...
in Gallia Narbonensis.
* Titus Quartius Masculus, named in a funerary inscription from Lilybaeum.
* Quartius Quietus, made a libationary offering to the gods at
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium was the Roman colony in the Rhineland from which the city of Cologne, now in Germany, developed.
It was usually called ''Colonia'' (colony) and was the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior and t ...
in
Germania Inferior
Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the fourth century, on the west bank of the Rhine bordering the North Sea. The capital of the province was Colonia Agripp ...
, in AD 252.
* Gaius Quartius Quintinus, dedicated a tomb for his friend, Gaius Apisius Zosimus, and his wife, Romogillia Festa, at
Nemausus
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in Gallia Narbonensis.
* Quartius Reditus, made a libationary offering to
Nehalennia
Nehalennia (spelled variously) is a goddess of unclear origin, perhaps Germanic or Celtic. She is attested on and depicted upon numerous votive altars discovered around what is now the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands, where the Schelde Riv ...
at
Ganventa in
Gallia Belgica
Gallia Belgica ("Belgic Gaul") was a province of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts of the Netherlands and Germany.
In 50 BC, a ...
.
* Quartia Saturnina, dedicated a tomb at
Mogontiacum
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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to her husband, Marcus, a veteran of the
twenty-second legion, and her son, Januarius.
* Quartia Secundilla, a freedwoman, and wife of Quartius Ulpius, named in a funerary inscription at
Lugdunum
Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum, ; modern Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon. The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but continued an existing Gallic settle ...
in
Gallia Lugdunensis
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.
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* Gaius Quartius Secundus, a soldier in the
thirteenth legion, named in a funerary inscription from Rome, dating to the second century AD.
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* Quartius Ulpius, freedman of Primitivus, and husband of Quartia Secundilla, buried at Lugdunum.
See also
*
List of Roman gentes
The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same '' nomen'' and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early ...
References
Bibliography
*
Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th centu ...
''et alii'', ''
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated ''CIL''), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
* René Cagnat ''et alii'', ''
L'Année épigraphique
''L'Année épigraphique'' (''The Epigraphic Year'', standard abbreviation ''AE'') is a French publication on epigraphy (i.e the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing). It was set up by René Cagnat, as holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy an ...
'' (The Year in Epigraphy, abbreviated ''AE''), Presses Universitaires de France (1888–present).
* Hans Petersen, "The Numeral Praenomina of the Romans", in ''Transactions of the American Philological Association'', vol. xciii, pp. 347–354 (1962).
* Cristóbal Veny, ''Corpus de las Inscripciones Baleáricas hasta la Dominación Árabe'' (The Balearic Inscriptions up to the Arab Conquest, abbreviated ''CIBalear''), Madrid (1965).
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