Transcript Patronage

Roman Culture and Society
Lecture 5 - Patronage
Veleia, alimentary tablet, detail
Puellae Faustinianae
Beneventum, arch of Trajan
Northwest side, attic
Northwest side, centre right
Northwest side, left lower
Southeast side, attic right
Southeast side, centre left
Southeast side, left below
Beneventum arch, southeast side
Trajanic alimentary schemes
IMP TRAIANO AVG.GER.DAC.P.M.TR.P.COS.VI P.P
(‘To Imperator Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
supreme pontiff, holding tribunician power, consul six
times, father of the fatherland’)
S.P.Q.R.OPTIMO PRINCIPI / ALIM. ITAL.
(‘Senate and People of Rome to the best leader;
alimentary schemes of Italy’)
Patronal
tablet,
Rome
ILS 6106 –
CIL VI 1492