Slave collar

[Carlton Bach]

Salve Volker,

In the book "Vita Romana" by Ingemar König which I lent you is the issue about slave collars mentioned. Since you still have it just look up the sources he stated maybe that helps Avitianus with his research.

Vale optime,

Thanks. It's on page 57, but there isn't much more, other than that most surviving slave collars are Late Roman, but there are some from Herculaneum. They also are mentioned in Plautus (captivi 357 ff.). A standard formula for inscriptions is given as:

SERVUS SUM XXX (name of master in Genitive) TENE ME NE FUGIAM ET REVOCA ME XXX (name and address of master or holder)

"I am the slave of XXX, if I escape, catch me and return me to XXX"

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