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Latin funerary inscription of Pinarii
Type of monument
Latin funerary inscription.
Location
Bal Mahmut (Kidyessos): built into a step in the vestibule of the mosque (1956); in use as a bench outside the mosque (2011).
Description
White marble block, broken right, buried behind and above (1956).
Dimensions
Ht. 0.31+;
W. 1.72+;
Th. 0.20+;
letters 0.035-0.065.
edition
V MarcusPeinariusTitifiliusAemiliaTertiusMarcoPeinarioGalloetPublioPeinarioPhrontonifiliissueisete AulifiliaeProculaiuxorisuae H M H S O
... M(arcus) Peinarius Tertius, son of T(itus), of the tribe Aemilia, for M(arcus) Peinarius Gallus and P(ublius) Peinarius Fronto his sons and for 〚- - - - -〛 Procula, daughter of A(ulus), his wife. This tomb follows... (?)
Commentary
Lines 2-5 of the inscription were recorded by Ballance in 1956, at which point line 1 (not seen by Ballance) was presumably concealed in the mosque steps. By 2011, the stone had been removed from the steps of the mosque, and was in use as a bench in the mosque garden; lines 2-5 had been worn to illegibility, but line 1 was now fully visible.
The family’s gentilician (Lat. Pinarius) is not an especially common one; the patrician family of the Pinarii was one of the oldest at Rome. The Kidyessian Pinarii were presumably Italian immigrants rather than Phrygians who had been granted the citizenship, although I am unable to find any plausible connection with any other holders of the nomen. Most likely we are dealing with a Italian negotiator who settled permanently with his family at Kidyessos in the Late Republican period: for this phenomenon, see Thonemann 2010: 169-74; for other Latin funerary inscriptions of the Late Republican and early Imperial period from central Phrygia, see e.g. MAMA VI 202 (Apameia: bilingual); MAMA XI 115 (1956/61: Akmoneia: L. Aelius Venustus). A legionary tribune by the name of Q. Pinarius L.f., also of the tribe Aemilia, is attested at Ephesos in the triumviral period: I.Ephesos 705A; AE 1992, 1581; Schäfer 2000: 131-2.
It is difficult to be certain of the date of the monument. The earliest coinage of Kidyessos, minted under Domitian, was struck in the name of a high-priest Flavius Peinarius (ἐπὶ Φλαουίου Πειναρίου ἀρχιερέως: Aulock 1980: 70-2, 127-8; RPC II 1390-2), clearly a member of this same family. In line 3, Procula’s gentilician has been deliberately erased, for unknown reasons. In line 4, I can offer no convincing resolution of the abbreviation HMHSO. A tiny handful of examples are known where the common formula h(oc) m(onumentum) h(eredem) n(on) s(equetur) is inverted (e.g. CIL VI 11451; 27839; 38697, hoc monumentum heredem sequitur), but I can find no parallel for the addition of an O: conceivably hoc monumentum heredes sequitur omnes?