Familia din Moesia Inferior din perspectivă demografică pe baza surselor epigrafice
The family in Moesia Inferior from demographic perspective and based on epigraphical sources

Summary/Abstract: The study of family in Moesia Inferior, on the basis of the epigraphic sources, raises issues of epresentativeness of the group. The minimal age for the first marriage is 13, and we have two such cases, Caecilia Artemisa and an anonymous woman, unlike Dacia, where the first such case is at 14. These are isolated cases, as the next women married are 18 or more, the marriage age for women being under 20. As for men, the youngest married man is 25, and the marriage age for men is under this age, as shown in the group for Roman Dacia. As regards the period of marriages, in the few available cases we can see that there is mention only for the marriages that lasted, also because the provincial society was less liberal than that of Rome. The family structure or the fertility shows a more numerous presence of large families in Moesia Inferior than in Dacia. The average of children per family is somewhere around two.

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