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Identification

Reference as: MPL01529
Title Funerary inscription for Titus Vettius Nepos and his wife
Trismegistos-No. 517934

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Mutina
Find Context Modena, in the castle (Muratori, 18th century)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location unknown
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Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

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State of Preservation
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width: unknown

height: unknown

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
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • iambo-trochaic rhythm
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

DM
TVETTIVSTFPOLNEPOSMILIT[---]
IIVIRQQFLAMDIALSIBIET[---]
LIB[---]
5SANCTISSIMAECVMQVAPERMVL[]
BENEVIXITTV[]:

SVMVSMORTALESIMMORTALESNONSVMVS[---?]
PRAESVMPTIONOSTRAHAECESTVAS[---]
VICTVROSCREDIMVS[---]
10SICERGOTVMORTALSECVRAMIAMNVNC[---]
CASVSNOSTRIHAECFACERERELIN[---]
MORTEMVIVERESEMPER:SO[---]
AGENTESSANIADSVPEROSHO[---]
QVIAVIVEREN[---]
D(is) M(anibus)
T(itus) Vettius T(iti) f(ilius) Pol(lia) Nepos milit[---]
(duovir) q(uin)q(uennalis) flam(en) dial(is) sibi et [---]
Lib[--- coniugi]
5sanctissimae, cum qua per mul[tos annos]
bene vixit. Tu [memento]:

sumus mortales, immortales non sumus [---?]
praesumptio, nostra haec est vas [---]
victuros credimus [---];
10sic ergo tu mortal(is), securam iam nunc [---]
casus nostri haec facere relin[---]
mortem vivere semper: so[---]
agentes sani ad superos ho[---],
quia vivere n[---]
D(is) M(anibus) T(itus) Vettius T(iti) f(ilius) Pol(lia) Nepos milit[---] (duovir) q(uin)q(uennalis) flam(en) dial(is) sibi et [---] Lib[--- coniugi] sanctissimae, cum qua per mul[tos annos] bene vixit. Tu [memento]:

sumus mortales, immortales non sumus [---?]
praesumptio, nostra haec est vas [---]
victuros credimus [---];
sic ergo tu mortal(is), securam iam nunc [---]
casus nostri haec facere relin[---]
mortem vivere semper: so[---]
agentes sani ad superos ho[---],
quia vivere n[---]
Apparatus

Text follows CIL and CLE.
l. 7-9: e.g. [votis] praesumptio; vas [tamen, semper]; credimus [bene conditos] (CLE)
l. 10-14: mortalis, cura iam nunc [memor] casus nostri haec facere relin[quere tuis, post] mortem vivere semper: so[li hoc] agentes sani ad superos ho[mines], quia vivere n[on est sine hoc] (CLE) exempli gratia.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameTitus Vettius Nepos
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicatee
  • GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 151 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • prosopography
  • language

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Editing History

Created 2026-10-15, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-22T15:00:35, ID there: EDR130872
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-22 15:00
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-06 14:48
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-04 14:32
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-09-29 09:51
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-09-29 09:54
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-09-29 09:55
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-09-29 09:57
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-10-10 18:42
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-02-03 11:24
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-02-03 12:30
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-02-03 12:31
  12. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-09-01 08:43
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