Новые надгробия с латинскими эпитафиями из Ольвии

Abstract

The article publishes and interprets four new grave monuments so far as possible in view of the fragmentary character of the inscriptions and their bad preservation degree. The gravestones bearing Latin epitaphs dated from the first half – middle III century AD were excavated on the Olbian necropolis in 1972, 1994 and 2002. The first of them confirms data on presence of civilians in Olbia who were connected with the Roman garrison and permanently lived in a specially allotted district in the first half of III century AD. Other three of them testify to the fact that in the middle of the III century AD Roman administration still rendered help to this center and assigned it certain role in containing the barbarian aggression against the Roman provinces, what is now securely fixed by means of a number of epigraphic sources.