The gens Iallia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens are not mentioned in ancient writers, but they rose to prominence during the middle part of the second century, with two of them achieving the consulship under Antoninus Pius.

Fragment of an inscription detailing the cursus honorum of Marcus Iallius Bassus.

Praenomina

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All of the Iallii known from inscriptions lived in imperial times, and few are mentioned with praenomina. The main praenomen of this gens seems to have been Marcus, although there is also an instance of Quintus. Both of these were among the most common names throughout Roman history.

Branches and cognomina

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The only regular cognomen of the Iallia gens was Bassus, which belonged to the senatorial family. This was a common surname, originally referring to someone who might be described as "stout" or "sturdy", and was one of a large class of cognomina derived from a person's physical features.[1] This family came to Rome from Alba Helviorum, perhaps indicating that they were of Gallic origin.[2][3]

Members

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This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Undated Iallii

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  • Iallius, a potter whose maker's mark is found on pottery from Gallia Aquitania and Belgica.[17][18]
  • Marcus Iallius Eutyches, a freedman buried at Rome, with a monument from his fellow freedman, Hedistus.[19]
  • Iallius Januarius, buried at Zugal in Numidia.[20]
  • Marcus Iallius Rogatus, buried at Zugal in Numidia.[21][22]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Chase, pp. 109, 110.
  2. ^ a b CIL XII, 2681.
  3. ^ a b CIL XII, 2718, CIL XII, 2719.
  4. ^ CIL XVI, 108.
  5. ^ AE 1968, 400.
  6. ^ CIL III, 6169, CIL III, 12387, CIL VI, 1119.
  7. ^ AE 1904, 95, AE 1962, 117, AE 1983, 784, AE 1983, 785, AE 2004, 1923, AE 2013, 2198.
  8. ^ PIR, I. 2.
  9. ^ Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, pp. 73, 232, 237, 251, 290, 302.
  10. ^ CIL XIII, 7746.
  11. ^ AIJ, 90.
  12. ^ PIR, I. 3.
  13. ^ ICUR, iv. 9406.
  14. ^ a b PIR, I. 4.
  15. ^ ICUR, iv. 9405.
  16. ^ CIL VIII, 2241, CIL VIII, 7005.
  17. ^ CIL XIII, 10010, 998.
  18. ^ CAG, 59-2, p. 285.
  19. ^ CIL VI, 19624.
  20. ^ Gsell, Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, ii. 3, 8399.
  21. ^ CIL VIII, 20099.
  22. ^ Gsell, Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie, ii. 3, 8400.

Bibliography

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  • Theodor Mommsen et alii, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (The Body of Latin Inscriptions, abbreviated CIL), Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1853–present).
  • Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romanae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores (Christian Inscriptions from Rome of the First Seven Centuries, abbreviated ICUR), Vatican Library, Rome (1857–1861, 1888).
  • George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII, pp. 103–184 (1897).
  • Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
  • Stéphane Gsell, Inscriptions Latines de L'Algérie (Latin Inscriptions from Algeria), Edouard Champion, Paris (1922–present).
  • Viktor Hoffiller and Balduin Saria, Antike Inschriften aus Jugoslawien (Ancient Inscriptions from Yugoslavia, abbreviated AIJ), vol. 1: Noricum und Pannonia Superior, Zagreb (1938).
  • Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antonien (The Consulate and Senatorial State under the Antonines), Rudolf Habelt, Bonn (1977).