Nata claro rubriorum genere: La familia Rubriorum e i suoi monumenti a Roma tra I e II secolo d.C.

Abstract

In this paper the Author makes a review of the most important funerary monuments which gave hospitality in Rome to slaves and freedmen of the Rubria gens. The starting point is a not very wellknown urban inscription, CIL, VI 36262, that concerns the building or more probably the acquisition and enlargement of a big familiar sepulchrum on the via Appia.The attention payed to this and another Roman tomb of Publii and Titii Rubrii on the via Portuensis is the starting point to an analysis concerning the origin of this senatorial family; her different ascending and descending branches; her history and political rise; her economical interests which could have been large and solid; and the significant social role of women (Rubriae, in this case) more and more engaged on building investments in Rome, starting from the Ist and the beginning of the IInd Cent. A.D.