Epitaph of the child slave Festius by his father created by Eric Andreas Kunz Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-22T15:11:56, ID there: EDR140804 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL01588 556826 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/1588 Ferrara, Lapidario Civico RA 796 stele limestone complete 30.0 78.0 20.0 Inscription on pedestal, on top of which a niche is flanked by pilasters and topped by a pediment on an inscribed architrave. On the tympanum, image of a munching hare. On the corners of the pediment, two lion-shaped acroteria. Inside the niche, portrait of a boy wearing a short tunic and clamis, holding grapes in his right hand and a bird in his left hand, over his chest. chiselled 1.6-2.0 Ferrara 31-70 Ferrara Ferrara, pinnacle of the church of Sant'Antonio Abate 44.8381 11.6198 no

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Festius Papirius Priscus

(c) EDCS
Festio, Papiri Prisci delicato.
Parva sub hoc titulo Festi sunt ossa lapillo, quae maerens fato condi dit ipse pater. Qui si vixisset domini iam nomina ferret, hunc casus putei detulit ad cineres.

Text follows CIL and CLE. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. l. 1: delic(io), Pflug 1989.

To Festius, delicatus of Papirius Priscus. Under this small tombstone lie the little bones of Festius, which his own mournful father has collected here. If he had been still alive, he would have already carried his master's names. His fall into a well turned him into ashes.

Bajo este epitafio se ocultan los huesos del pequeño Festo, los cuales su propio padre, abatido, enterró bajo una pequeña lápida por culpa del destino. El cual, si hubiese vivido más, llevaría ya el nombre de su señor: una caída a un pozo lo convirtió en cenizas.

Dating proposed by D. Pupillo.

CIL 05, 02417 CLE 01157 H. Pflug, Römische Porträtstelen in Oberitalien. Untersuchungen zur Chronologie, Typologie und Ikonographie, Mainz am Rhein 1989, 160, nr. 21 (on l.1, delicio) D. Pupillo, Ferrara cum agro, SupplIt 17, Rome 1999, 154, nr. 2417. C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 9, nr. 1157 (Spanish translation of the elegiac couplets). V. La Monaca, Festius: un caso emblematico di delicatus?, Epigraphica 69 (2007), 169-180 (with photos, fig. 1a-b; and drawing, fig. 2) - AE 2007 AE 2007, 00626 https://db-edcs-eu.uaccess.univie.ac.at/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-04201470 | EDCS-04201470 http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?do=book&id_nr=EDR140804 | EDR140804 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1157 | MQDQ https://bbcc.regione.emilia-romagna.it/samira/link/gqydanrx | Patrimonio culturale dell'Emilia Romagna