Public Slaves in Rome and in the Cities of the Latin West: New Additions to the Epigraphic Corpus

This contribution aims at offering an update of the epigraphic corpus on public slaves and freedmen, which is currently known, with a view to providing a full-scale reconsideration of the whole phenomenon of public slavery elsewhere in the future. This catalogue has not pretension to comprehensiveness, especially because it does not include possible new attestations from Greek East. While increasing the epigraphic corpus of public slaves, the evidence collected in this paper also provides new data concerning public slavery both in Rome and in the cities of the Latin West.