The Tombstone of Cupbearer Marturius from Sirmium

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Articolo

Rivista

AEVUM

Fascicolo

AEVUM - 2017 - 1

Titolo

The Tombstone of Cupbearer Marturius from Sirmium

Autori

Aleksandra Smirnov-Brkić, Žarko Petković

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

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06-2017

Issn

0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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During the archaeological excavations in Sremska Mitrovica (Serbia) in 1970, at the site of Roman Sirmium, a fragmentary marble tombstone was excavated at the Christian cemetery of Sirmian martyr St. Sуneros/Serenus. The tombstone bears an inscription which reveals that Marturius held a position of a cupbearer of Emperor Constans I (337-350). The name of the emperor is based on the reading Constanti | inperatori (lines 3-4; adnominal dative). The inscription is significant because it is one of the few epigraphic confirmations of the title pincerna, the position well-established in the late Roman and medieval imperial courts.