Abstract (eng)
This thesis discusses the servile and manumitted status within families and its changes in everyday life after manumission. Associated with this topic is the macula servitutis („stain of slavery“) that is often approached one-sidedly by disregarding the point of view of the persons affected. In order to prevent this, 17 funerary inscriptions are analysed which explicitly indicate the different status of family members. In addition, the focus is on the commentary of the individual monuments from Italy, Noricum and Istria. This analysis shows two things. Firstly, slaves put their family relations on a terminological level with those of freedwomen, freedmen and freeborn. Secondly, the practice of living together watered down or even assimilated the status differentiation which resulted in the decline of its significance. Therefore, one should keep in mind to look at the perspectives of people with servile and manumitted status, which can scarcely be reconstructed, as well as to separate private life from legal sources.