Archaeological Museum "San Lorenzo"
The necropolis
THE ARRUNTII GRAVESTONE
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THE ARRUNTII GRAVESTONE
Sculpture
The Arruntii family’s gravestone dates back, more or less, to the half of the 1st century a.C. At the beginning it was placed on the facade of a funerary monument along the road to Bergamo. The slab shows the portraits of four members of the family: the eldest son Massimo, a legionary soldier, the mother and the two sisters. These information come from the inscription under the portraits.
The history of the mother is particularly important: her Greek name was Calinice and she was liberta. Then, she got married with Caio, father of Massimo, Arruntia Tertia and Arruntia Quarta (according to the Roman use of calling the daughters with a name respecting the order of their birth). We do not have any information about the capofamiglia and about an other son (the siblings should have been four), probably both soldiers like Massimo and dead far away from Cremona.
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