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Identification

Reference as: MPL01411
Title Funerary inscription for Gaius Antistius Severus
Trismegistos-No. 261080

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Isola del Gran Sasso
Find Context Frazione Cerchiara, piano di San Valentino?
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Isola del Gran Sasso
Inventory number
Current Location Details frazione Cerchiara, private property
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material local stone
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 58.0 cm

height: 84.0 cm

depth: 12.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.5
Letter Size in cm (max) 6.5
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Iambic senarius
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

DM
CANTISTIO
SEVERO
MILCOHVIIIIPR
5SPEMILITANSANNXDECESSITFALERIS
CVIVSCINERES

ANTISTIVSCORAESVS
RETTVLITPATER
D(is) M(anibus).
C(aio) Antistio
Severo,
mil(iti) coh(ortis) VIIII pr(aetoriae),
5spe(culatori). Militans ann(is) X, decessit Faleris.
Cuius cineres

Antistius Coraesus
rettulit pater.
D(is) M(anibus). C(aio) Antistio Severo, mil(iti) coh(ortis) VIIII pr(aetoriae), spe(culatori). Militans ann(is) X, decessit Faleris. Cuius cineres

Antistius Coraesus rettulit pater.
Apparatus

Text follows CIL and Branchesi, image checked by Branchesi in 2011.

Main Translation

Translation To the spirits of the departed.
For Gaius Antistius Severus, a soldier of the 9th Praetorian cohort. He served as a
speculator for 10 years.
He died in Faleri, whose ashes
his father, Antistius Coraesus, brought back.
Citation Faithfull 2024

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameC. Antistius Severus
    GenderMale
    ProfessionMilitary staff
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameAntistius Coraesus
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 101 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • names

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Editing History

Created 2026-09-01, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-22T14:42:27, ID there: EDR112532
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-22 14:42
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-30 12:08
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-11-18 13:48
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-11-18 13:54
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-11-18 13:55
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-18 13:59
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-01-27 13:21
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-01-27 13:21
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-01-28 10:57
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-01-28 11:00
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-01-28 11:02
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-01-28 11:04
  13. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-09-01 08:04
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