I wonder if "Ratler" is a misspelling of something else, like a nickname? Ought it otherwise to be the surname of his last owner? In which case you should have been able to find them, probably on the family tree somewhere, unless there was a stretch of time when he was sold away and then returned. (I am very confident about naming conventions for Roman freedmen; the US, not so much.)
In the ancient world people often overestimate ages, especially when they get up to 90 or so. Someone who is described as 90 on a tombstone might actually be more like 80.
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:35 am (UTC)In the ancient world people often overestimate ages, especially when they get up to 90 or so. Someone who is described as 90 on a tombstone might actually be more like 80.