CIL 6.31199 — The Rome Fragments of the SC de honoribus Germanici magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub reading text and apparatus afterM. H. Crawford (ed.), Roman Statutes, vol. I, London 1996, no. 37 (the standard edition; the Rome fragments are printed and discussed with the decree of the senate). magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub magalia.wiki — Epigraphy Matrix Hub Beijing 2026 magalia.wiki cil-6-31199 CIL VI 31199 (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37, Rome Fragments) 00900052 VI 31199 cf. AE 1984, 508 (Tabula Siarensis, the parallel witness) VI 31199 (the Rome fragments); Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37 CC-BY 4.0 — EpiDoc TEI edition for study and reuse. see provenanceCIL VI 31199 (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37, Rome Fragments) 00900052 VI 31199 cf. AE 1984, 508 (Tabula Siarensis, the parallel witness) VI 31199 (the Rome fragments); Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37 Three bronze fragments, found in Rome, of the Senate's decree of honours for Germanicus Caesar. Bronze; found in Rome, early 19th century 16 December AD 19 (the decree) Rome Rome — Bronze fragment M. H. Crawford (ed.), Roman Statutes, vol. I, London 1996, no. 37 (the standard edition; the Rome fragments are printed and discussed with the decree of the senate). Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI 31199 (the Rome fragments). J. González, ‘Tabula Siarensis, Fortunales Siarenses et municipia civium Romanorum’, ZPE 55 (1984), 55–100 (the Tabula Siarensis, which secured the placing of Rome Fragment a). W. D. Lebek, studies on the Tabula Siarensis, ZPE 66 (1986), 90 (1992), 95 (1993). G. Rowe, Princes and Political Cultures: The New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees, Ann Arbor 2002. J. B. Lott, Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome: Key Sources, with Text, Translation, and Commentary, Cambridge 2012. Tacitus, Annals 2.83 (the honours voted for Germanicus). Linked data and external resources Pleiades 423025 EDH EDCS Trismegistos (TM) PIR² magalia.wiki edition

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 Latin English Germanicus Iulius CaesarThe honorandNephew and adopted son of Tiberius; he died at Antioch on 10 October AD 19. These Rome fragments are part of the Senate's decree of honours for him. TiberiusEmperorRoman emperor AD 14–37, adoptive father of Germanicus. His name survives, broken, in Rome Fragment (b): '[— T]i. Caesar Aug. [—]'. AntoniaThe honorand's motherAntonia the Younger, daughter of Mark Antony and mother of Germanicus. Her name survives in Rome Fragment (a) — 'Antoniae mat[ris]' — among the family statues on the Circus Flaminius arch. Borghesi & FeaEarly editorsBartolomeo Borghesi and Carlo Fea, scholars of the early nineteenth century who first studied these Rome fragments and recognised that they honoured Germanicus, long before the Tabula Siarensis was found. the Roman Senate (senatus)issuing body
CIL 6.31199 — The Rome Fragments of the SC de honoribus Germanici — edition
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CIL 6.31199 — The Rome Fragments of the SC de honoribus Germanici — translation
Rome Fragment (a) (ll. 1–20)

[— his wi]fe [—] in the Circus [Fla]minius [—] of the [peo]ples [— defea]ted, and [—] sent as proconsul [—], unsparing [of his effort —]; that a statue of Germanicus Caesar be set [up —], of Antonia [his] mo[ther —]; that another arch be built [—] the regions wh[ose —]; [a plaque] fitting to the achi[evements —]; that a third arch either [be built or placed beside —] the ar[my], then with [the permission of —] the Ger[mans]; and [—] to make the burial mound of Drusus [—]; and since there was in th[at region —] done according to this decree of the senate [—]; [— where the body of Germanicus] Caesar had been crema[ted — where he had ex]pired, a tri[bunal —].

Rome Fragment (b) (ll. 21–24)

[—] and as far as household [religious rites] are concerned [—]; [—] Tiberius Caesar Augustus [—]; [—] the senate [—].

Rome Fragment (c) (ll. 25–40)

[— that the senate] thoug[ht —]; [—] some [—]; [—] on the Palatine [—]; [—] in the same book [—]; [—] thought that [Germ]anicus [—]; [—] the senate agreed that [—]; [— that ima]ges be placed abov[e —]; [— tho]se things which, according to the decree of the senate, for the purpose of honour[ing —]; [—] which, among other things, in the same ro[ll —]; [— of the over]seas provinces, of Asi[a —]; [— to give th]anks and to acknowledg[e —]; [—] be called, there should be [—]; [—], since the honour[s —]; [— of the C]aesars, wh[ich —]; [— should desti]ne [—].

CIL 6.31199 — The Rome Fragments of the SC de honoribus Germanici — commentary

Rome Fragment (a) is the most substantial of the three Rome scraps, and the most securely placed. Its surviving words — the Circus Flaminius, the defeated peoples, the proconsular command, the statue of Germanicus, Antonia his mother, the second and third arches, the burial mound of Drusus, the cremation and the tribunal — run exactly parallel to the opening section of the Tabula Siarensis Fragment (a). Crawford notes that 19 lines of this fragment correspond to 30 lines of the Siarensis: it is the same decree, engraved with a longer line (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, 1996, no. 37, 538, 559).

It is precisely this parallelism that makes the fragment valuable. Because the two copies were engraved with different line-lengths, each controls the other's restorations: where the Siarensis breaks off, Rome Fragment (a) sometimes preserves a word, and vice versa. The two witnesses, found a thousand miles apart, are read together — and the Rome fragment fixes the placing of the decree's text in the capital itself (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, 1996, no. 37, 538).

Rome Fragment (b) is the smallest of the three — four broken lines. Its one diagnostic phrase, perque domestica sacra (‘and as far as household religious rites are concerned’), echoes a clause of the Tabula Hebana (line 56 there) on the equestrian order's duties during the mourning (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, 1996, no. 37, 538, 561).

Crawford cannot place the fragment with certainty. It cannot be restored as part of the same text as Fragments (a) and (c); but, since its content relates to the matter of the Lex Valeria Aurelia, it is best regarded, like Fragment (c), as belonging to the decree of the senate displayed at Rome (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, 1996, no. 37, 538).

Rome Fragment (c) preserves sixteen broken lines whose content, on internal grounds, clearly belongs to a decree of the senate. Its surviving words — ‘on the Palatine’, ‘in the same book’, ‘that images be placed above’, ‘according to the decree of the senate, for the purpose of honouring’, ‘of the overseas provinces, of Asia’ — relate closely to the matter of the Tabula Hebana, lines 1–4 and 5–50 (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, 1996, no. 37, 538, 561).

The phrase arbitrari senatum, ‘the senate thought’, and the decreeing-formula echo senatui placere, ‘that it pleased the senate’, mark the fragment unmistakably as senatorial. Crawford rejects the suggestion that a fresh decree begins within it: there is no trace, here or in the parallel column of the Siarensis, of the closing formulae of a senatus consultum. Fragment (c) is the Rome copy of the same decree (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, 1996, no. 37, 538).

Critical apparatus Rome Fragment (a) — Crawford prints Rome Fragment (a) immediately after Tabula Siarensis Fragment (a): the two are the same text, the Rome copy engraved with a longer line. 19 lines of this fragment answer to 30 of the Siarensis (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37, 559). p(ro) co(n)s(ule) mis[sus] — 'sent as proconsul': Germanicus's command in the East. The reading PASCOS was recorded here by Fea (one of the fragment's early editors); the text follows the parallel of the Tabula Siarensis. non parce⟨n⟩s — 'unsparing' (of his effort) — the phrase non parcens labori suo of the Tabula Siarensis. The reading PARCES was recorded by Fea; the n is supplied. alter ianus fieret — 'that a second arch be built' — the arch on Mount Amanus in Syria. The clause runs parallel to Tabula Siarensis Fragment (a), line 22. [p]erque domestica[ sacra] — Rome Fragment (b). CIL read DOMESTICV[M FVNVS]; Crawford prints domestica[ sacra], the phrase paralleled in the Tabula Hebana, line 56, on the equites' duties during the mourning (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37, 550, 561). [ ]mare se[ ] — Crawford notes that something like existu]mare se[natum] ('the senate thought') is more likely here than [trans]mare ('across the sea') — the fragment is senatorial in content (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37, 561). [a]rbitrar[i senatum] — Rome Fragment (c). The phrase 'the senate thought' marks the fragment unmistakably as part of a decree of the senate (Crawford, Roman Statutes I, no. 37, 538). senatui placere, uti — 'that it pleased the senate that...' — the decreeing formula of a senatus consultum, confirming the fragment's genre. [e]a quae ex s(enatus) c(onsulto) honorandi c[ausa] — 'those things which, according to the decree of the senate, for the purpose of honouring...': Buonocore restored honorandi C[aesaris causa], 'for the purpose of honouring Caesar'. [desti]narent — The fragment ends with the verb of the destinatio — designating candidates for magistracies — linking Rome Fragment (c) to the constitutional honours later enacted by the Lex Valeria Aurelia.
Editions and commentary M. H. Crawford (ed.), Roman Statutes, vol. I, London 1996, no. 37 (the standard edition; the Rome fragments are printed and discussed with the decree of the senate). Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI 31199 (the Rome fragments). J. González, ‘Tabula Siarensis, Fortunales Siarenses et municipia civium Romanorum’, ZPE 55 (1984), 55–100 (the Tabula Siarensis, which secured the placing of Rome Fragment a). W. D. Lebek, studies on the Tabula Siarensis, ZPE 66 (1986), 90 (1992), 95 (1993). G. Rowe, Princes and Political Cultures: The New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees, Ann Arbor 2002. J. B. Lott, Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome: Key Sources, with Text, Translation, and Commentary, Cambridge 2012. Tacitus, Annals 2.83 (the honours voted for Germanicus).