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| Id | 1216 |
| Person id-code | Claudius Onesimus 001 |
| Name | Claudius Onesimus, Tib., Aug. lib. |
| Gender | male |
| Gentilicia | CLAUDIA |
| Cognomina | Onesimus |
| Tribus | Palatina |
| Name comments | In view of his freedman status, his tribus is most likely the Palatina |
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| Post quem (when person flourished) | 58 AD |
| Ante quem (when person flourished) | 134 AD |
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| Legal status | libertus |
| Servile affiliation | Augusti/Caesaris |
| Citizen status | civis Romanus |
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AE 1941, 00071; CIL 06, 09034
Tran 2006: 126-127, 131 ; Royden 1988: 164, no. 198; Anderson 1997: 111; Pearse 1974: 37-38, 70-71
Magister quinquennalis of the fabri tignuarii in Rome during the 18th lustrum (79-83 CE) (CIL 06, 09034; AE 1941, 00071).
During the 18th lustrum he replaced a C. Iulius Felix, who was himself a replacement of a regularly elected quinquennalis, M. Duillius C. l. [---] who was excused (excusatus)
In CIL 06, 09034, possibly his funerary inscription, he is presented as redemptor operum Caesaris (CIL 06, 09034)
Tran points out that Onesimus had been freed for at least 10 years before becoming quinquennalis and must have been decurio before becoming quinquennalis.
He might be the same man who set up two marble altars to Hercules (AE 1982, 0066) and to Silvanus (AE 1982, 0067).
But neither mentions a link with the collegium fabrum tignuariorum and Onesimus' status as imperial freedman is not mentioned.
Both were found in the Vicolo dell'Arsaccio in Rome, too far from where the schola of the fabri tignuarii was to suggest they came from there, although they could of course have been transferred.
Imperial freedmen Ti. Claudii Onesimi occur relatively frequently, e.g.:
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