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Identification

Reference as: MPL01272
Title Funerary inscription from Interpromium
Trismegistos-No. 282554

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Interpromium
Find Context Found in the Abbey of S. Clemente a Casauria (seen for the first time intact in 1754).
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Torre dei Passeri (Pescara), Abbazia di S. Clemente a Casauria, museo
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material local stone
State of Preservation fragmentary
Dimensions

width: 48.0 cm

height: 34.0 cm

depth: 24.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 1.3
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceVerse
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Carmen figuratum
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To mark a pentameter in an elegiac couplet (indentation)

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


SISTEGRADVMQVAESOSINETELEVETVMBRATENACEM
HOSPESITERDVRVMEST:QVIDTERISVSQVEVIAE
AVDI:PAVCAMORAMFACIENTMEADICTALABORES
SEDMEMORHA.CIMOPECTORECONDETVO
5CRVDELESDIVISTHYGIASQVICVMQVEPALVDIS
INCOLITISNVLLIQVADATVRIRERETRO
QVIDVOSINMATVRAIVVATQVAEVESTRAFVTVRAST
POSTMODOCONSVMPTOTEMPORETVRBATVO
FLETIBVSADSIDVISLVGETMAESTISSIMAMATER
10QVAE.....OCCIDEREQVAMNAIAMIRADARIEIGNI
DEBVITVTSVPERIPIAFATATVLISSENT
ETPATERHOCTITVLODEBVITANTELEGI
HISERGOMEADICTAREFER:DESISTATHVMATAM
VLTERIVSLACHRVMISSOLLICITASSESVIS
15SVMDEFLETASATISFINEMDECETESSEDOLORI:
QVISEMELOCCVBVITNVLLAQVERELLAIVVAT!

Siste gradum, quaeso, sine te levet umbra tenacem,
hospes; iter durum est: quid teris usque viae
Audi: pauca moram facient mea dicta labores,
sed memor haẹc imo pectore conde tuo.
5Crudeles divi, Sthygias quicumque paludis
incolitis, nulli qua datur ire retro,
quid vos inmatura iuvat, quae vestra futurast
post modo consumpto tempore turba tuo
Fletibus adsiduis luget maestissima mater,
10quae p̣ṛịọṛ occidere, quam Naiamira dari eigni
debuit, ut superi pia fata tulissent,
et pater hoc titulo debuit ante legi.
His ergo mea dicta refer: desistat humatam
ulterius lachrumis sollicitasse suis;
15sum defleta satis; finem decet esse dolori:
qui semel occubuit nulla querella iuvat!

Siste gradum, quaeso, sine te levet umbra tenacem,
hospes; iter durum est: quid teris usque viae
Audi: pauca moram facient mea dicta labores,
sed memor haẹc imo pectore conde tuo.
Crudeles divi, Sthygias quicumque paludis
incolitis, nulli qua datur ire retro,
quid vos inmatura iuvat, quae vestra futurast
post modo consumpto tempore turba tuo
Fletibus adsiduis luget maestissima mater,
quae p̣ṛịọṛ occidere, quam Naiamira dari eigni
debuit, ut superi pia fata tulissent,
et pater hoc titulo debuit ante legi.
His ergo mea dicta refer: desistat humatam
ulterius lachrumis sollicitasse suis;
sum defleta satis; finem decet esse dolori:
qui semel occubuit nulla querella iuvat!
Apparatus

l.3 labores orig., reg. laboris
l.5 Sthygias orig., reg. Stygias | paludis orig., reg. paludes
l.7 futurast orig., reg. futura est
l.8 tuo orig., reg. suo
l.10 eigni orig., reg. igni
l.14 lachrumis orig., reg. lacrimis

Text follows EDR079425, (Silvia Evangelisti/ Marco Mannino).
l. 2: via[m] (CIL)
l. 3: faciunt (CIL)(CLE); labor[i]s (CIL)
l. 5: Stygias quicunque (CIL)(CLE); Sthygias pro Stygias; paludis pro paludes
l. 7: futura est (CIL)(CLE); futurast pro futura est
l. 8: tuo pro suo
l. 9: m[a]estissima (CIL); mestissima (CLE)
l. 10-11: occidere et quam mea membra dari (CLE); dari / igni (CIL)(CLE); eigni pro igni
l. 14: lachrumis pro lacrimis

Main Translation

Translation Hold your step, I ask, let the shade give you some ease, steadfast stranger: your journey is hard, why wear yourself down all the way? Listen a little, my words will give you a break from your stress, but bury these words deep down in your heart. You cruel divine spirits, who inhabit the Stygian swamps, from where no one is permitted to return, why do you derive pleasure from the immature crowds, which will be yours anyway, only after their time is up? Her most gloomy mother grieves, constantly in tears, who should have died before Naiamira had to be handed over to the fire – had those gods above accepted our dutiful vows!, and of the father, too, one should have read in this inscription before! To them deliver my words: may they cease to upset their buried child any further with their tears; I have been wept for enough, there has to be an end to their pain; once I have sunk into my grave, no lament can please.
Citation Peter Kruschwitz

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Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 201 AD
Date (To) 300 AD
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    Funerary inscription from Interpromium

    Photo: EDR

Editing History

Created 2026-07-28, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-07-25T11:18:57, ID there: EDR079425
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-25 11:18
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-28 10:53
  3. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-28 10:54
  4. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-28 10:55
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 16:21
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 12:40
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 12:57
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 13:01
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 13:16
  10. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 13:20
  11. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 13:21
  12. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 13:22
  13. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-28 15:07
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