Spatial terminology from the Nin inscription (CIL 3, 14322)

Abstract

This paper analyses and focuses primarily on the spatial terminology from the Nin inscription (CIL 3, 143224) and its meaning. Three spatial terms (taberna, pergula, maenianum) from the Nin inscription are compared with the spatial terminology from two Pompeii inscriptions (CIL 4, 138; CIL 4, 1136). The aim of the paper is to indicate that the use of these terms in ancient Aenona (present-day Nin) was a reflection of early and intensive romanisation in which the terms were used in public, and most likely in private construction. Such findings are extremely rare, which increases the significance of the Nin inscription, which therefore can be placed “side by side” with the aforementioned epigraphic heritage of Pompeii.