Aurelia Nais

Aurelia Nais also known as just Nais was a Roman piscatrix. Nais was a freedwoman. Mentioned on Aurelia's grave are two men by the names of Gaius Aurelius Phileros and Lucius Valerius Secundus. Gaius and Lucius are inscribed into Nais' tombstone as fellow freedmen. Gaius is listed as Aurelia's patron on her epitaph. Lucius however may have been Nais' husband as he originates from a different household than herself and there is little information on his life. This tombstone or cinerary altar is dated 3rd C. AD. The Epitaph displays the companionship between one woman and two men, all of them they were Romans. Gaius and Lucius honor Nais by displaying this on the grave. Aurelia worked in a warehouse called the Horrea Galbae. This warehouse was named the Horrea Galbae after becoming imperial property. This was during the reign of emperor Galba, an era in which Nais lived. Before emperor Galba's reign, the warehouse in which Nais worked had been owned by the Sulpicii family. This family built the building in the 2nd century BC. The said building was located near the Aventine Hill in Rome. The warehouse in which Nais worked is mentioned on her tombstone. This is a suggestion that Nais worked at this establishment for a prolonged time and was not a traveling merchant.