Ghent Database of Roman Guilds

 

P. Claudius was a freedman of the Tres Galliae, more correctly presumably of the concilium Galliarum in Lugdunum. He resided in Ostia since at least 177 CE, when he set up a modest funerary inscription to his (unofficial) wife Modestia Epigone (CIL 14, 00328). He was freed by the middle of the 180s when he buys a sarcophagus for his alumnus C. Modestius Theseus, presumably the son of his deceased wife, and possibly his own natural son, who died at the age of eight. (CIL 14, 327). The expensive sarcophagus indicates that he was already well-off a the time. In 194 CE he donates 6000 sesterces to the association of dendrophori on behalf of his son P. Claudius Veratius Abascantianus (CIL 14, 00325; 326). This son's second name, Veratius, indicates a marriage to a Veratia. In 203 CE sets up a statue for another son P. Claudius Horatius Abascantianus on the campus Matris Dei, the 'Field of the Mother of Gods', near the temple of Magna Mater (CIL 14, 00324). The second names of this son indicates another marrage to a Horatia. The inscription on the base of this statue also mentions that he was now quinquennalis for the second time of the association of dendrophori.

On Abascantus, his family and their relation to the dendrophori of Ostia see Herz 1989; Tran 2006: 129-131; Zevi 2018