Gaius Longinius Speratus

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Gaius Longinius Speratus (* 2nd century ; † 3rd century ) was a Roman brick manufacturer.

Life

Gaius Longinius Speratus served in the Legio XXII Primigenia , which was stationed in Mogontiacum ( Mainz ), and settled as a veteran near what is now Großbottwar . He manufactured bricks on the site of his villa rustica , which he sold in a sales area of ​​around 10 × 20 kilometers. Bricks with Speratus' stamp “GLSP” were found in Weinsberg and Walheim , for example .

He had four children with his wife, Iunia Deva. The names of the family members come from the dedicatory inscription of a sanctuary for Apollo and Sirona , which Longinius Speratus and his family had built on their own property in 201 AD. The 142 centimeter wide, 82 centimeter high and 16 centimeter thick sandstone slab was found in Großbottwar in 1710. She had been in Stuttgart since 1757 at the latest. Now it is in the lapidarium of the Württemberg State Museum . It contains the following inscription:

"In h (onorem) d (omus) d (ivinae) Apo [ll] ini et Sironae
aedem cum signis C (aius) Longinius
Speratus vet (eranus) leg (ionis) XXII Pr (imigeniae) p (iae) f (idelis )
et Iunia Deva coniunx et Lon-
gin (i) Pacatus Martinula Hilaritas
Speratianus fili (i) in
suo posuerunt v (otum) s (olverunt) l (ibentes) l (aeti) m (erito)
Muciano et Fabiano co ( n) s (ulibus) "

(Latin inscription on the sandstone slab, German: "In honor of the imperial house. Gaius Longinius Speratus, veteran of Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis, his wife Iunia Deva and their children, Longinii Pacatus, Martinula, Hilaritas and Speratianus, erected a temple with statues on their own property and fulfilled their vows gladly and joyfully according to their due, under the consuls Mucianus and Fabianus ")

literature

  • Hans-Peter Kuhnen : The private tiling of Gaius Longinius Speratus in Großbottwar, Ldkr. Ludwigsburg - An example of the economic change in Roman south-west Germany . In: Munster contributions to the ancient history of trade . 13.2, 1994, pp. 1-15.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIL XIII, 6458 . Ulrich Brandl, Emmi Federhofer: Sound + Technology. Roman bricks . Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2403-0 , p. 69 ( Writings of the Limes Museum Aalen . No. 61).
  2. ↑ a b data sheet for the inscription
  3. ↑ Inventory number RL 402.
personal data
SURNAME Longinius speratus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speratus, Gaius Longinius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman brick manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century