Nipia gens

The Nipia gens was an obscure family in ancient Rome.

Members

  • Gaius Nipius Ascanius, mentioned on two ingots in Roman Britain, one from Bossington and the other from Carmel.[1][2][3] His cognomen, Ascanius, is rare and only otherwise attested as a name belonging to a freedman in Verona, perhaps indicating that Nipius Ascanius was himself also once a slave. Regardless of his background, he eventually acquired a position within a Roman mining operation in Britain.[4]
  • Gaius Nipius Flavianus, mentioned as a procurator on an inscription from Rome.[5]
  • Gaius Nipius M. f, mentioned on an inscription from Aquinum.[6]
  • Lucius Nipius, an ancient Roman freedman. He erected a stone in the 1st-century CE.[7]
  • Nipia Secunda, mentioned on an inscription dated to the 2nd-century CE.[8]

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Kolbeck, Ben (2018-10-12). "A Foot in Both Camps: The Civilian Suppliers of the Army in Roman Britain". Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal. 1 (1). doi:10.16995/traj.355. ISSN 2515-2289.
  • Whittick, G. Clement (1982). "The Earliest Roman Lead-Mining on Mendip and in North Wales: A Reappraisal". Britannia. 13: 113–123. doi:10.2307/526491. ISSN 1753-5352.