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Daza Pane/tis f(ilius) an(n)o(s) / vix(it) XXX mi/lit(avit) XVI III(triere) / Corcodi/lo(!). F(ecit) Plusia / lib(erta) patro(no) / suo et sibi // In fron(te) p(edes) IV. (EDR075313)
“Daza, son of Panes, lived 30 years and served 16 years in the trireme ‘Crocodile’. The freedwoman Plusia had (the tombstone) made for his patron and for herself. (The funeral plot measures) 4 feet in width.” (EAGLEWIKI11257)

Daza and Panes are typical Illyrian names, the latter is particularly characteristic of the Delmatae, while Daza’s freedwoman bears a Greek name. An elaborate Z is carved in the name of the sailor, while abbreviations are rather unusual, and moreover, they are combined with mistakes. Thus ANO appears instead of the usual ANN for annorum (‘years’); F stands for fecit (‘made’), instead of the more usual fec(it). The name of the trireme, Corcodilus, should in fact be Crocodilus; the ship is already known in Aquileia from another inscription (Inscr. Aquil. 2824 = CIL V 960). Small space of the funerary plot perhaps betrays the poor economic situation of the sailor, which may be confirmed by the epitaph of another sailor from Dalmatia, in which it is explicitly claimed that he had been born in the greatest poverty (EDR075311).

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