Marble cippus of Kamenius from Rome

TNMM 2039 ↔ CIMRM 395B

= 516. 'Cippus marmoreus in aedibus Barberinis. Ibi nunc in repositis conservatur.'

CIL VI 1675 = 31902; Lugli, Fontes IV, 279 No. 16.

Also found in hortis Barberini in Quirinali. The monument does not belong to the Phrygianum in the Vatican (No. 515) but to the domus of Ceionius Iulianus Kamenius on the Quirinal hill.

tri(umfali) read: tri[umf(ali)].

iero[fonte read: iero[f]ante.

M(atris) I.

Lugli places the inscription before A.D. 333, the year in which Kamenius was praefectus urbis; I see no reason for such an early date.

Lugli, Fontes IV, 330 Nos. 199–200 reproduces two bolli (CIL XV 156b, 9; CIL XV 911a, I) dating from the first century and the beginning of the second century A.D. and belonging to a house, situated 'nello bosco del vicolo sterrato, il quale da S. Nicola da Tolentino conduce alla strada di Porta Pia.' It is thought – but I do not know why – that this house belonged to Kamenius.