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A New Fragment of the Arval Acta

1969; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 37; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s006824620000773x

2045-239X

James M. Reynolds,

Historical and Religious Studies of Rome

While excavating a mausoleum associated with the destroyed church of Santa Rufina (beside the Via Cornelia, the modern Via di Boccea) in 1968, Lady Wheeler found several fragmentary inscriptions, including one which deserves separate publication because it contains part of an entry from the Arval Acta for the early second century A.D. Its presence there is of interest both for the history of the site and for that of the Arval monuments from the Vigna Ceccarelli, which seem to have been broken up and to some extent dispersed in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. Most of the dispersed pieces have been recovered in the city of Rome or its immediate neighbourhood, but this one went rather farther afield, presumably in a load of building material brought out from the city to the site. It is in fact valuable evidence for the use of material from the city in the Christian buildings of South Etruria at this date.