Homo inter homines sum – The importance of age for freedmen’s construction of masculinity in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome by Lisa Hagelin

“…These are the words of the famous freedman Trimalchio, expressing that he is now able to enjoy the good life and that he is part of society, he is “a man among men”. …”
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Comments on a Roman Stamped Brass Ingot by Peter Rothenhöfer

“…It is stamped three times showing the name most probably of a freedman, Gaius Petronius Hermes. This entrepreneur is otherwise unknown and cannot be linked to other persons with the same praenomen and nomen gentile. …”
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New inscriptions from the Museum of Bursa by Nalan Eda Akyürek Şahin, Hüseyin Uzunoğlu

“…The funerary inscriptions are humble, but apart from contributing to the already rich onomastics of Bithynia Mysia, they also provide some interesting information, such as concerning a freedman (no. 5), a new phyle called Protinia (no. 10), the posthumous honouring of a woman doctor (no. 11), and, a teacher (no. 16). …”
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Three new sarcophagi from Kios (Gemlik) by Enver Sağır, Hüseyin Uzunoğlu, Koncagül Hançer

“…An intaglio carrying a depiction of Isis and Sarapis was found in the second sarcophagus which was carved on behalf of Marcus Iulius Aelianus Iulianus for Kladaios, both his friend and doctor, and for his freedman Harmodios. The inscription on the lid of the third sarcophagus records the owner as Aurelius Numerius and that he was a councillor in the city, providing the first attestation of a βουλεύτης in Kios. …”
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The Social Rise of an Animal Fighter (archikynegos) from Bithynia by Mustafa Adak

“…After a successful care­er as venator Iustus became a freedman. His various citizenships and the title archikynegos sug­gest that he continued his career as a fighter of wild beasts even after manumission. …”
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Prosopographical and Onomastic Notes III by Thomas Corsten

“…The next chapter is devoted to the correct understanding of another funeral inscription from Nikaia: A freedman set up a grave­stone for his master from the family of the Granii. …”
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Epigraphic Research around Juliopolis III: Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions from Doğandere and Juliopolis by Canan Arıkan (Onur)

“…No. 2 is erected by a certain Antonius for his freedman Chariton. In no. 3 Apolaustos and Claudia built a tomb foe their parents. …”
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Some Isaurian and Lycaonian inscriptions in the museum of Karaman by Mehmet Alkan

“…In the second (No. 8), a certain freedman of the Emperor by the name of M. Ulpius is recorded as tabularius. …”
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The Gerousia of Akmonia by Nikos Giannakopoulos

“…Moreover, the award of the asymbolos status to a new member chosen exclusively by Demades (the freedman Karpos), is the first undisputed proof that the Gerousia imposed regular contributions to its own members. …”
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New Inscriptions from the Smintheion by Tolga Özhan, Davut Kaplan

“…Inscription no. 4 on a marble plinth is a dedication of a column to Apollo Smintheus by Publius Quintilius Axios, probably a freedman of the Publii branch of the Quintilii, a senatorial family of Alexandreia Troas, and his wife Daphne. …”
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"Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable" - archeologia jako element strategii artystycznej Damiena Hirsta by Wojciech Brillowski

“…It develops the main idea of the exhibition – a fictitious vision of the origin of these objects from an ancient wreck, filled with artistic collections, belonging to a fabulously rich ancient Roman freedman, with the significant name Cif Amotan II (anagram from “I am a fiction”). …”
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Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (2): Sidyma I. The History of the Settlement with the New Inscriptions by Burak Takmer

“…Claudius Epagathos, the freedman and personal physician of the Emperor Claudius, and his son Ti. …”
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