Eighty-seven slave burials in one Roman columbarium include named paedagogi

Evidence

We have Hilarus, paedagogus. We have Demetrius, paedagogus. We have Tertius, paedagogus puerorum — paedagogus of the boys, plural — a man who had been responsible for the discipline of multiple Statilius children across multiple decades. The names are Greek. The men were probably born in the Aegean. They died in Rome, in slavery, and were buried in a brick-and-stucco columbarium, with a small terracotta urn for each. — , The Rod and the Child, 620