Roman memorial plaque from Tübingen

Roman memorial stone from Tübingen

The Roman memorial plaque from Tübingen was drawn and published in 1534 by the scholars Petrus Apianus and Bartholomäus Amantius.

The scholars Petrus Apianus and Bartholomäus Amantius published a collection of inscriptions in 1534. The collection includes, among other things, a drawing of a fragment of a Roman memorial stone that has been lost since then, with the following fragmentary inscription, labeled Tubingæ , which was then kept in Tübingen - and possibly also found there:

MAX IN

AVG M GER MAX

DAC MAX ARM

MAX TRIB P

COS ET

It contains the name of the emperor Maximinus Thrax (235 to 238), but that of his son Maximus is missing . The inscription belongs to the years 237/8 due to the mentioned victory legends. In the second line there is a ligature of T and E inserted before the first M, which was probably not recorded correctly. The text of the inscription is completed as follows:

[Imp (erator) Caes (ar)]

[C (aius) Iulius Verus]

Max [im] in [us P (ius) Fel (ix)]

Aug (ustus) [p (ontifex)] m (aximus) Ger (manicus) max (imus)

Dac (icus) max (imus) [S] arm (aticus)

max (imus) trib (unicia) [p (otestate) [III (or IIII) im] p (erator) [V [or VI)]

[co (n) s (ul) p (ater) p (atriae) pro] co (n) s (ul)

[C (aius) Iulius Verus]

[Maximus nob (ilissimus) Caes (ar)]

[- - -]

Translated the text reads:

"The emperor Caesar Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus Augustus , the pious and happy, Pontifex Maximus , greatest German winner , greatest Daker winner , greatest Sarmatian winner , holder of the authority of a tribune for the 3rd (or 4th) time, for the 5th (or 6th) Proclaimed emperor, consul , father of the fatherland, proconsul; and Gaius Iulius Verus Maximus, the extremely noble Caesar . ”(It is also possible that it was an inscription for the emperor, whose name in this case is in the dative.)

Editions

CIL 13, 6375 = 9083
CIL 17, 2, 655
F. Haug, G. Sixt: The Roman inscriptions and sculptures of Württemberg . 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 1914, p. 283, no.165.

Web links

Entry in the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg

Remarks

↑ Petrus Apianus ; Bartholomäus Amantius: Inscriptiones Sacrosanctae Vetvstatis: non illae quidem Romanae, sed totius fere orbis [...], Ingolstadt 1534, page 457.
^ Jürgen Sydow: History of the City of Tübingen, Volume 1, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1974, page 4.
^ Karl Eduard Paulus : Description of the Oberamt Tübingen , H. Lindemann, Stuttgart 1867, page 193.
^ H [einrich] F [erdinand] Eisenbach: Description and history of the university and city of Tübingen , CF Osiander, Tübingen 1822, page 2.

[1] Petrus Apianus ; Bartholomäus Amantius: Inscriptiones Sacrosanctae Vetvstatis: non illae quidem Romanae, sed totius fere orbis [...], Ingolstadt 1534, page 457.

[2] Jürgen Sydow: History of the City of Tübingen, Volume 1, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1974, page 4.

[3] Karl Eduard Paulus : Description of the Oberamt Tübingen , H. Lindemann, Stuttgart 1867, page 193.

[4] H [einrich] F [erdinand] Eisenbach: Description and history of the university and city of Tübingen , CF Osiander, Tübingen 1822, page 2.