Entrepreneurial activity of the Vettii from Aquileia

The nomen Vettius, in association with various praenomina and cognomina, is frequently documented in all X regio and beyond by epigraphy and instrumentum inscriptum, especially around the city of Aquileia. This observation offers the possibility to launch a prosopographical study about the family, based on published epigraphic data. The gens probably moved from Central Italy to the area of Aquileia after the foundation of the colony (181 a.C.) and there it got involved into an intensive pottery production (at least, of tiles, amphoras, lamps and terra sigillata) and took part of the political vitality of the city.