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Identification

Reference as: MPL01246
Title Epitaph of the slave of Aulus Quintus by her husband
Trismegistos-No. 247083

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Consentia
Find Context San Lucido (Cosenza), district of Petralonga (formerly Palazzi), 1930.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Cosenza, Museo dei Brettii e degli Enotri
Inventory number 3337
Current Location Details Hall nr. 10.
Vicinity

Object Details

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

width: 37.5 cm

height: 41.0 cm

depth: 2.9 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.8
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.7
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceProse + Verse
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • No distinction
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Centered
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Centered
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate words - Interpunction

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

DIS
MANIBVS
[---]NAEAQVINTI
[]ERVAEVIXAN
5XIX

[---]INEVLLOFLORENTESANNO
[]BITAERIPVIT

[---]SCONTVBERNALI
[]MAE
Dis
Manibus.
[---]nae A(uli) Quinti
[s]ervae vix(it) an(nis)
5XIX.

[---]ṃine ullo. Florentes annoṣ
[]bita eripuit.

[---]ẹs contubernali
[opti]mae.
Dis Manibus. [---]nae A(uli) Quinti [s]ervae vix(it) an(nis) XIX.

[---]ṃine ullo. Florentes annoṣ []bita eripuit.
[---]ẹs contubernali [opti]mae.
Apparatus

Text follows Guzzo and Solin. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 5: incomplete numeral X, only first stroke visible.
ll. 6-7: [Sine o]mine ullo florentes annos / [mors s]ubita eripuit, hendecasyllable, Guzzo. [Sine cri]mine ullo. Florentes annos / [mors s]ubita eripuit, Solin; Cugusi.
Parallels for the poetic part can be found in MPL01750 and CLE1004, Cugusi.

Main Translation

Translation To the Manes. ... slave of Aulus Quintus, lived for nineteen years.

... any ... took away her blooming years ... to his excellent wife.
Citation Fabio Spalla

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Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by Soldovieri (EDR). Guzzo proposes a broader dating between the 1st and the 2nd centuries AD, based on palaeography and on the presence of a hendecasyllable.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 71 AD
Date (To) 150 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography
  • formulae

Bibliography

Images

  • Epitaph of the slave of Aulus Quintus by her husband.

    Epitaph of the slave of Aulus Quintus by her husband.

    Source: EDCS-09300190 (c) V. Wagner

Editing History

Created 2026-08-31, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-07-25T11:15:22, ID there: EDR076488
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-25 11:15
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-08-30 07:54
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-08-30 07:55
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-08-30 07:55
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-03-27 19:09
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-10-22 08:57
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-10-22 08:59
  8. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-10-22 09:35
  9. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-10-22 09:36
  10. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-10-24 07:24
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-18 13:20
  12. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-12-15 07:28
  13. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-18 17:34
  14. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-18 17:41
  15. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2026-07-28 08:53
  16. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-28 09:24
  17. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-08-31 14:57
  18. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-08-31 14:58
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