Nipia gens

The Nipia gens was an obscure family in ancient Rome.

Members

• Gaius Nipius Ascanius, mentioned on two ingots in Roman Britain, one from Bossington and the other from Carmel. His cognomen, , is rare and only otherwise attested as a name belonging to a freedman in Verona, perhaps indicating that Nipius Ascanius was himself also once a slave. Regardless of his background, he eventually acquired a position within a Roman mining operation in Britain.
• Gaius Nipius Flavianus, mentioned as a procurator on an inscription from Rome.
• Gaius Nipius M. f, mentioned on an inscription from Aquinum.
• Lucius Nipius, an ancient Roman freedman. He erected a stone in the 1st-century CE.
• Nipia Secunda, mentioned on an inscription dated to the 2nd-century CE.

See also

• List of Roman gentes

References

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