The funerary stele of Petto from Ig

Abstract

During archaeological excavations in 2014 in the meadow called Marof in Ig, in addition to the first Roman cemetery to be discovered in this area, an architectural funerary stele was also found. The inscription reads that the gravestone was erected for Petto and his family, whose members bore both Roman and local names characteristic for the Ig area: Petto, Cotiu (Otiu?), Bugia, Quarta, Rustius (Rusticus?), and Firmus. The stele was found broken into three parts and together with other dressed stones lay in a pit from Late Antiquity. The article describes the stele in more detail, interprets the inscription, and particularly provides possible interpretations for the (deliberate?) deposition of the Roman stones in the pit.

Keywords

• slovenia
• ig area
• roman period
• epigraphy
• ig anthroponymy
• funerary stelae