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Inscriptions: Funerary slab for Caerellius Proculinus by his wife Aurelia Eusebia

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Identification

Reference as: MPL01151
Title Funerary slab for Caerellius Proculinus by his wife Aurelia Eusebia
Trismegistos-No. 259514

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Iulia Dertona (Tortona)
Find Context Tortona (Alessandria), church of San Marziano, XVI century.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Tortona (Alessandria), Museo Civico
Inventory number 1222-1223
Current Location Details Museo Civico, Christian lapidarium, wall nr. 15.
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation fragmentary (adjoining fragments)
Dimensions

width: 103.5 cm

height: 60.5 cm

depth: 6.5 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 4.5
Letter Size in cm (max) 5.5
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Christian

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Centered
    • Justified
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Right aligned
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate verses - Interpunctions

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations


BM

QVOTMERVIVITAMMORIENSQVOTET
IPSEROGAVICONIVGISOGRATIREDDITVRECCE
FIDESSITLICETINFERNENOCTISTRISTISSIMVS
5HORRORMETAMENVESTRECREDOIACEREDOMO

AVRELIAEVSEBIACERELLIOPROCVLINOVPCONIVGI
DVLCISSIMOQVIVIXITANNXLVMVIIIIDVETVIXIT
CVMCONIVGEMSVAMANNXXIIIICONTRAVOTVMMMFEC

B(onae) m(emoriae).

Quot merui vitam moriens quot et
ipse rogavi coniugis o grati redditur ecce
fides. Sit licet inferne noctis tristissimus
5horror, me tamen vestre credo iacere domo.

Aurelia Eusebia Cerellio Proculino v(iro) p(erfectissimo) coniugi
dulcissimo, qui vixit ann(is) XLV, m(ensibus) VIIII, d(iebus) V, et vixit
cum coniugem suam ann(is) XXIIII, contra votum m(e)m(oriam) fec(it).
B(onae) m(emoriae).

Quot merui vitam moriens quot et ipse rogavi
coniugis o grati redditur ecce fides.
Sit licet inferne noctis tristissimus horror,
me tamen vestre credo iacere domo.
Aurelia Eusebia Cerellio Proculino v(iro) p(erfectissimo) coniugi dulcissimo, qui vixit ann(is) XLV, m(ensibus) VIIII, d(iebus) V, et vixit cum coniugem suam ann(is) XXIIII, contra votum m(e)m(oriam) fec(it).
Apparatus

l.2 reg., orig. Quot | reg., orig. vitam | reg., orig. quot
l.3 reg., orig. grati
l.4 reg., orig. fides | reg., orig. inferne
l.5 reg., orig. vestre
l.6 reg., orig. Cerellio
l.8 reg., orig. coniugem suam

Text follows CIL 05, CLE and ICI 07. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation In good memory.
What I deserved in life and what I myself wished for in death, here it is, granted by the faithfulness of my dear wife. Though the horror of the infernal darkness is dreadful, nonetheless I believe I am in your house.
Though her prayers were not answered, Aurelia Eusebia made this monument for a most illustrious man, her sweetest spouse, who, lived forty-five years, nine months, five days, and lived twenty-four years with his wife.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameCaerellius Proculinus
    GenderMale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
    OriginNative
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameAurelia Eusebia
    GenderFemale
    OriginNative
    RoleDedicator

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by G. Mennella in ICI 07.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 401 AD
Date (To) 500 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography
  • formulae

Bibliography

Images

  • (c) G. Mennella

Editing History

Created 2025-04-08, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-07-25T11:00:52, ID there: EDR010683
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-25 11:00
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-08-22 20:30
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-03-31 12:51
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-03 14:20
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-03 14:21
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-08 12:13
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