Funerary stele of Marcus Allius Ursinus created by Johanna Rath MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00464 184525 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/464 Split, Archaeological Museum AMS 848A stele limestone complete 98.0 38.0 10.0 chiselled 1.6-3.0 201-300 Baška Voda 43.3589 16.9502 no

Encoded following EpiDoc guidelines 9.5

 Greek Greek-Latin Latin Multilingual Ancient Greek written in Latin script Latin written in Greek script funerary inscription

Marcus Allius Firminus Marcus Allius Ursinus Caius Septimus Carpoporus

(c) Archaeological Museum Split
Dis Manibus Marcus Allius Firminus Ursino filio Cai Septimi Carpopo ri delica to infeli cissimo puero naufragio obito annorum XI cuius mem bra consump sit mare>maris per se quot nomen titulus praestat suisque dolo rem

Text follows CIL. Checked on drawing by Johanna Rath, 2024.

To the Spirits of the Departed. Marcus Allius Firminus for his son Son Ursinus, delicatus (luxury slave) of Caius Septimus Carpoporus, the unlucky boy, who died in a shipwreck, whose limbs the sea has devoured. How many a time does an inscription display a name and thus bring pain to the relatives

CIL 03, 01899 (cf. p. 1499) CLE 00826 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD053673 | HD053673 https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-27500180 | EDCS https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|0826 | MQDQ https://thepetrifiedmuse.blog/2014/03/23/the-cold-grave-that-is-the-deep-deep-sea/ | Peter Kruschwitz, The cold grave that is the deep, deep sea. In. The Petrified Muse. 23.03.2012 cf. Christian Laes, Desperately different? Deliciae children in the Roman Household. In: David L. Balch, Carolyn Osiek (Hg.), Early Christian Families in Context: an Interdisciplinary Dialogue. (Grand Rapids, Michigan 2003) 298-327.