Due to their heritability, Roman praenomina never functioned as personal identifiers in the Southeastern Alps. Already at the onset of the Roman period, praenomina are often omitted on instrumentum domesticum, which is informal in nature. Some group votive inscriptions and the tabella defixionum of Emona, where the praenomen appears only sporadically, may indicate that individuals generally did not know the praenomina of people they were not well acquainted with. The largest decrease in use of praenomina can be observed in the 2nd century, especially in its 2nd half, but they remained in use even in the 3rd century. They apparently disappeared during the 4th century. With the general granting of citizenship (212), gentilicia should have been obtained by every male citizen, but even later on, cases of males without gentilicium can be found. Gentilicia fell out of use in the 4th century as well, as evident also from the names of inhabitants which begin to appear in historical sources for this period. Mononymy was definitely established by the beginning of the 5th century. We can conclude that in the Southeastern Alps, the demise of the tria nomina system proceeded in a similar manner as in other regions of the Latin West.
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