The authoress presents an outline of epigraphic monuments in the Lower Savinja Valley, which still testify to the presence of Roman culture and early literature on Slovenian soil. The contribution addresses not so much the people to whom these monuments were dedicated as the inscriptions on them. The texts on monuments provide us with a greater insight into the then population and its stratification; their names reveal who they were, where they came from, what they did for a living, how old were they when they died, and much more.