Epitaph of the slave Dasius by his owner Caius Farrax Iucundus created by Eric Andreas Kunz Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:12:09, ID there: HD040521 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00939 197066 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/939 Győr, Xántus János Múzeum 57.1.18 stele sandstone incomplete 49.0 74.0 17.0 Inscription within frame. Above, semi-circular frame containing three starred rosettes topped by a crescent moon. chiselled 3.0-6.0 Scarbantia 71-100 Scarbantia County of Győr-Moson-Sopron, village of Hédérvár, garden of the mansion of count Viczay. 47.6849 16.583 no

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Dasius Caius Farrax Iucundus

Source: Ubi Erat Lupa 780 (c) Györ - Xántus János Múzeum, foto by Ortolf Harl 1998
Dasius Caii Far racis Iucundi. Hoc posita in tumulo pueri sunt ossa viator quem super in titulo to

Text follows CIL and RIU. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. ll. 1-2: C. Farrax Iucundus appears on CIL 03, 04257 from Sopron (Ödenburg), CIL. l. 6: [lacrimat us]qu[e] pa[te]r et c..., CLE. [dici] cum pa[tre vid]eto, Cholodniak. [...ovapa??] peto. (?), Fehér. [ ...ovapa?? p⸢e⸣]to, Kovács and Fehér. [lacrimas us]qu[e] pa[te]r et q[-----, Cugusi and Sblendorio Cugusi.

Dasius, (scil. slave) of Caius Farrax Iucundus. The bones of this boy are buried here, traveller, who up on this stone ...

En esta tumba enterrados están los restos mortales de un niño, caminante, a quien [llora] sin cesar su padre sobre este epitafio.

Dasius, Caius Farrax Iucundus (fia?, libertusa?, rabszolgája?) fíu csontjai nyugszanak a hant alatt, vándor, akit fent a feliraton ...

Die KNochen des jungen Dasius, (der Sohn?, Libertus?, oder Sklave?) von Caius Farrax Iucundus ruhen unter dem Grabhügel, Wanderer, du, den oben in der Aufschrift...

Dating proposed by Cugusi and Sblendorio Cugusi. Gabler proposes a dating to the second half of the 1st century AD, though without criteria. Szőnyi proposes a dating to the 1st century AD, without criteria. Fehér and Kovács propose a 51-100 AD dating, without criteria. Harl and Beszédes (Ubi Erat Lupa) propose a 60-100 AD dating, based on decoration.

CLE 01209 CIL 03, 10947 RIU 01, 00239 (with drawing, 197, nr. 239) CSIR Ungarn 02, 00109 CLEPann 00014 J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 337, nr. 933. D. Gabler, Arrabona és környékének kőplasztikai emlékei, Arrabona 10 (1968), 72-73 (also on dating) B. Fehér, Poems and versification in Pannonia, Act. Ant.(Budapest). 38 (1998), 65-66, nr. 1. C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 34, nr. 1209 (Spanish translation of the elegiac couplet) D. Gabler, Frühe Romanisierung in Nordwest-Pannonien?. In: P. Noelke (ed.), F. Naumann-Steckner (ed.) et al., Romanisation und Resistenz in Plastik, Architektur und Inschriften der Provinzen des Imperium Romanum. Neue Funde und Forschungen. Akten des VII. Internationalen Kolloquiums über Probleme des provinzialrömischen Kunstschaffens, Köln 2. bis 6. Mai 2001, Mainz 2003, 391 (with photo, fig. 5) E. Szőnyi, Vezető a Győri múzeum római kori lapidáriumában, Győr 2003, 58-59 (with photo and Hungarian, English, German translations; also on dating) B. Fehér, P. Kovács, The sources of Pannonian antiquity. The history of Pannonia between 54 and 166 A. D., Budapest 2005, 84 (also on dating) M. Holzner, Annona epigraphica austriaca 2008, Roem. Oest. 32 (2009), 137, nr. 7. https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-29900805 | EDCS-29900805 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD040521 | HD040521 (also on dating) https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1209 | MQDQ https://lupa.at/780 | Ubi Erat Lupa 780 (also on dating)