Patrimoines sénatoriaux de la Decima Regio

This paper assembles the evidence on landed-property and other revenue sources for senators from Regio X, as well as the origin of their fortune, when it is possible, by cross-referencing literary and epigraphic sources with topographic data and, in a certain number of cases, with the archaeology of large uillae. The documentation is particularly extensive in Istria for the Julio-Claudian period, where the aristocracy of colonial origin (Palpellii, Laecanii) was in contact with the high Roman nobility who arrived during the Augustan period (Statilii, Acilii Glabriones), or even earlier (Cassii Longini, Calpurni Pisones, C. Vibii). In contrast, the evidence on property is quite rare in Eastern Venetia (Ragonii from Opitergium) and even in Aquileia (Mutilii, Ummidii), while the involvement of the senatorial aristocracy in manufacturing and commercial activities is very difficult to establish in the largest Adriatic port. In Western Venetia, the documentation is extensive for the cities of Brixia and Verona, which included several new gentes at the beginning of the Empire, and in which the society was dominated by powerful families at the end of the 2nd and in the beginning of the 3rd century (Nonii, Roscii, Postumii). Lastly, Vicetia and Patauium, while raising some delicate questions, show some original aspects of the way in which relations with the imperial milieu occupied a fundamental place.