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Inscriptions: Funerary inscription for Q. Octavius Primus and Octavia Tigris

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Identification

Reference as: MPL01608
Title Funerary inscription for Q. Octavius Primus and Octavia Tigris
Trismegistos-No. 557748

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Valeggio sul Mincio
Find Context Found in Valeggio (Verona), a village near the modern and ancient Verona in front of the church of S. Giorgio.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Verona, Museo Lapidario Maffeiano
Inventory number 28181
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type altar
Material limestone
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 116.0 cm

height: 181.5 cm

depth: 84.5 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 2.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 8.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

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

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

DM
QOCTAVIO
QLPOBPRIMO
VIVIROAVG
SACIVVEN
5OCTAVIATIGRISPAT
CONIVGIBMETSIBI
VF

QVAERERECONSVLVISEMPERNEQVEPERDERED[---]
NVNCABVTROQVEVACO
DECASAPAVL[---]
VOLVIT
HICMEACONPOSITOREQVIESCVNTO[---]
ETLABORAPVEROQVIMIHISEMPERERATNVNCLABOROMNIS[---]
5CVRAEQVEMOLESTENECSCIOQVITNVNCSIMNECSCIOQV[---]

PARVATAMENNOSTROREMANENTSOLACIAFACTO:VIVENTQVIL[---]
VIVIQVIADONAFRVVNTVRVIVITEFELICESQVIBVSESTFORTVNA[---]
D(is) M(anibus)
Q(uinto) Octavio
Q(uinti) l(iberto) Pob(lilia) Primo,
(seviro) Aug(ustali),
sac(erdoti) iuven(um).
5Octavia Tigris pat(rono),
coniugi b(ene) m(erenti) et sibi
v(iva) f(ecit).

Quaerere consulvi semper neque perdere d[---]
nunc ab utroque vaco
decasa paul[---]
voluit.
Hic mea conposito requiescunt o[---]
et labor a puero qui mihi semper erat. Nunc labor omnis [---]
5curaeque moleste, nec scio quit nunc sim nec scio qu[---]

parva tamen nostro remanent solacia facto: vivent qui l[---]
vivi quia dona fruuntur.Vivite felices quibus est fortuna [---].
D(is) M(anibus)
Q(uinto) Octavio Q(uinti) l(iberto) Pob(lilia) Primo, (seviro) Aug(ustali), sac(erdoti) iuven(um). Octavia Tigris pat(rono), coniugi b(ene) m(erenti) et sibi v(iva) f(ecit).

Quaerere consulvi semper neque perdere d[---]
nunc ab utroque vaco

decasa paul[---] voluit.

Hic mea conposito requiescunt o[---]
et labor a puero qui mihi semper erat.
Nunc labor omnis [---] curaeque moleste,
nec scio quit nunc sim nec scio qu[---]

parva tamen nostro remanent solacia facto:
vivent qui l[---] vivi quia dona fruuntur.
Vivite felices quibus est fortuna [---].
Apparatus

l.1 consulvi orig., reg. consuevi

Text follows EDR143152 (C. Girardi)

Following Masaro:
l. 8 — consulvi for consuevi (Hauptius, cited in CIL and Breuer)
l. 9 — d[e casa pau… re]volvit (Hauptius and Breuer); Buecheler suggested paul[um flaminis]
l. 10 — o[ssa, quiescit] (proposed in CLE and Pighi)
l. 11 — [abest durus] (proposed by Hauptius and Breuer)
l. 14 — [relicta] (proposed by Hauptius and Breuer)

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameQ. Octavius Primus
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    ProfessionReligious staff
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameOctavia Tigris
    GenderFemale

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 51 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2026-09-25, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-22T15:15:50, ID there: EDR143152
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-22 15:15
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-08 12:31
  3. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-08 12:31
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-04 16:09
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-08-24 11:09
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-08-24 12:11
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-08-24 12:12
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-08-24 12:32
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-08-24 12:34
  10. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-08-24 12:35
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-08-25 11:32
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-08-25 11:36
  13. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-08-25 11:41
  14. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-09-24 12:58
  15. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-09-25 13:50
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