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Identification

Reference as: MPL01349
Title Funerary inscription for Nymphes
Trismegistos-No. 248649

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Luca (Capannori)
Find Context Found in Capannori, a village near to the ancient Luca, in the garden of the Cantignano Abbey.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Lucca, Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation fragmentary
Dimensions

width: 70.0 cm

height: 83.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceProse + Verse + Prose
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
  • Dactylic pentameter
  • Elegiac couplet
  • iambo-trochaic rhythm
  • Mixed
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

DM
NYMPHES
ACHELOVSETHEORTE
FILIAEDVLCISSIMAE
5HAVE

TV.[]VI[]M[]NIMENTV͡M
MEVM[]ESITDATA
VITAM[]NNOS
SV[---]NTES
10SEXTV[]NDENS
ANIM[]M
NOLITENO[]TESMORI
ENDVMVIPRORAVTAETAFATVS
HOCVOLVITMEVS
SICQVOMODOMALA
15INARBOREPENDENTSICORPORANOSTRA:
AVTMATVRACADVNTAVTCITACERBA[]VVNT
TELAPISOPTESTORLEVITERSVPEROSSA[]SIDAS
NITENERAEAETATITV.ELISESSEGRAVIS

VALE
D(is) M(anibus)
Nymphes
Achelous et Heorte
filiae dulcissimae
5have.

Tu ḥ[ic q]ui [stas atque spectas] m[o]nimentu͡m
meum [aspice quam indign]e sit data
vita m[ihi. Quinque] ạnnos
su[--- pare]ntes,
10sextu[m annum insce]ndens
anim[am deposui mea]m.
Nolite no[s dolere, paren]tes, mori-
endum f̣uiṭ, prop̣ẹravịt aeta, Fatus
hoc voluit meus.
Sic quomodo mala
15in arbore pendent, si corpora nostra:
aut matura cadunt aut cit acerba [r]uunt.
Te, lapis, optestor, leviter super ossa [re]sidas,
ni tenerae aetati tu ṿelis esse gravis.

Vale.
D(is) M(anibus) Nymphes Achelous et Heorte filiae dulcissimae have. -

Tu ḥ[ic q]ui [stas atque spectas] m[o]nimentu͡m meum
[aspice quam indign]e sit data vita m[ihi.]
[Quinque] ạnnos su[--- pare]ntes,
sextu[m annum insce]ndens anim[am deposui mea]m.
Nolite no[s dolere, paren]tes, moriendum f̣uiṭ,
prop̣ẹravịt aeta, Fatus hoc voluit meus.

Sic quomodo mala in arbore pendent, si corpora nostra:
aut matura cadunt aut cit acerba [r]uunt.
Te, lapis, optestor, leviter super ossa [re]sidas,
ni tenerae aetati tu ṿelis esse gravis.
Vale.
Apparatus

l.5 have orig., reg. ave
l.6 m[o]nimentu͡m orig., reg. monumentum
l.13 aeta orig., reg. aetas
l.15 si orig., reg. sic
l.16 cit orig., reg. cito
l.17 optestor orig., reg. obtestor
l.18 ni orig., reg. ne

Text follows EDR104741 (Lapini 2010)

l.9 perhaps su[perum lumen vidique pare?]ntes (CLE)

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameNymphes
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameAchelous
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator
  • NameHeorte
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicator

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Have Squeeze? no

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Editing History

Created 2026-07-30, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-07-25T11:30:23, ID there: EDR104741
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-25 11:30
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-23 10:18
  3. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-23 10:19
  4. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-23 10:19
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-30 11:31
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-30 10:12
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-30 10:15
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-30 12:36
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-30 12:36
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-30 12:37
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-30 12:41
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