Titel
With Her Back to the Wall?
Layered Information on the Funerary Altar of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Aconia Fabia Paulina (and Related Monuments)
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Abstract
Revisiting the arrangement, textual design, and spread of information of the four inscribed parts of the well-known funerary altar of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Aconia Fabia Paulina, the author argues that the inscription at the altar’s otherwise undecorated rear, the poem of Paulina, was deliberately designed to preserve private information about the couple and their religious beliefs, but to be hidden from the public eye – arguably by placing the altar’s rear against the wall of the burial space. This argument is backed up (a) by a revision of other inscriptions and sources referring to the couple and their religious agenda in public and private and (b) by consideration of further monumental texts that were inscribed only to be hidden away from the public eye in a similar fashion.
Stichwort
Vettius Agorius PraetextatusAconia Fabia Paulinafunerary altarhidden inscriptionslayered information
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Sprache
Englisch [eng]
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Titel
Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica
Band
58
ISSN
2814-855X
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Seitenanfang
153
Seitenende
188
Publication
The Classical Society of Finland
Verfügbarkeitsdatum
07.07.2026
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
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(c) 2025 Peter Kruschwitz
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