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Identification

Reference as: MPL01611
Title Funerary inscription to Quintus Volusius Anthus
Trismegistos-No. 543874

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Ostia
Find Context Found in 1789 at unknown location.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Lapidaria
Inventory number 7972
Current Location Details Galleria Lapidaria, 17, 97.
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 61.0 cm

height: 35.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags
  • Plant / Ivy leaf

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Justified
    • Centered
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Centered
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate words - Interpunction

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


DIS hedera MANIBVS
QVOLVSISPFLEMANTHI

PARVOLVSINGREMIOCOMVNISFORTEPARENTIS
DVMLVDITFATICONRVITINVIDIA
5NAMTRVCIBVSIVNCTISBVBVSTVNCFORTENOVELI
IGNARVMRECTORPROPVLITORBEROTA
MAESTVSVTERQVEPARENSPOSTQVAMMISERABILE
FVNVSFECITINFERISMVNERASVMADEDIT
HVNCANTHOTVMVLVMMALEDEFLORENTIBVS
10ANNISPROPIETATEPARICOMPOSVERESVO

QVOLVSIVSQLANTHVSPATERFECITSIBIET
SILIAE()LFELICVLAECONIVGISANCTISSVMAE
VOLVSIAEQFNICEQVOLVSIOQFANTHO
SILIAE()LNICECSILIOANTHO     vacat
15INFRPVI hedera INAGRPIIIS

Dis ((hedera)) Manibus
Q(uinti) Volusi Sp(uri) f(ilii) Lem(onia) Anthi.

Parvolus in gremio comunis forte parentis
dum ludit, fati conruit invidia.
5Nam trucibus iunctis bubus tunc forte noveli
ignarum rector propulit orbe rota.
Maestus uterque parens postquam miserabile
funus fecit, inferis munera suma dedit,
hunc Antho tumulum male deflorentibus
10annis pro pietate pari composuere suo.

Q(uintus) Volusius Q(uinti) l(ibertus) Anthus pater fecit sibi et
Siliae ((mulieris)) l(ibertae) Feliculae coniugi sanctissumae,
Volusiae Q(uinti) f(iliae) Nice, Q(uinto) Volusio Q(uinti) f(ilio) Antho,
Siliae ((mulieris)) l(ibertae) Nice, C(aio) Silio Antho. ( vac. )
15In fr(onte) p(edes) VI, ((hedera)) in agr(o) p(edes) III s(emis).
Dis ((hedera)) Manibus Q(uinti) Volusi Sp(uri) f(ilii) Lem(onia) Anthi.

Parvolus in gremio comunis forte parentis
dum ludit, fati conruit invidia.
Nam trucibus iunctis bubus tunc forte noveli
ignarum rector propulit orbe rota.
Maestus uterque parens postquam miserabile
funus fecit, inferis munera suma dedit,
hunc Antho tumulum male deflorentibus
annis pro pietate pari composuere suo.
Q(uintus) Volusius Q(uinti) l(ibertus) Anthus pater fecit sibi et Siliae ((mulieris)) l(ibertae) Feliculae coniugi sanctissumae, Volusiae Q(uinti) f(iliae) Nice, Q(uinto) Volusio Q(uinti) f(ilio) Antho, Siliae ((mulieris)) l(ibertae) Nice, C(aio) Silio Antho. ( vac. ) In fr(onte) p(edes) VI, ((hedera)) in agr(o) p(edes) III s(emis).
Apparatus

l.3 reg., orig. comunis
l.5 reg., orig. noveli
l.8 reg., orig. suma
l.12 reg., orig. sanctissumae

Text follows CIL. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation To the Manes of Quintus Volusius Anthus, son of Spurius, of the Lemonia tribe. While in tender years he was playing on a common parent’s lap, the spite of destiny fell upon him. Then a driver accidentally pushed forward with yoked wild oxen over the unaware youngling with the ring of a wheel. After both miserable parents organised a mournful funeral, they offered their greatest gifts, and for Anthus, whose years sadly pass by, they arranged this grave with pious sentiment equal to his own. The father Quintus Volusius Anthus, freedman of Quintus, dedicated this to himself and to his most virtuous wife Silia Felicula, freedwoman of a matron, to the daughter of Quintus Volusia Nice, to the son of Quintus Quintus Volusius Anthus, to Silia Nice, freedwoman of a matron, and to Gaius Silius Anthus. Six feet in width, three and a half in depth.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameQuintus Volusius Anthus Spuri filius
    GenderMale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameQuintus Volusius Anthus Quinti libertus
    GenderMale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicator
  • NameSilia Felicula
    GenderFemale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameVolusia Nice
    GenderFemale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameSilia Nice
    GenderFemale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameGaius Silius Anthus
    GenderMale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 101 AD
Date (To) 250 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • (c) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - BBAW

Editing History

Created 2025-03-28, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-22T15:16:19, ID there: EDR143627
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-22 15:16
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-26 16:07
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-04 16:10
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-03-26 17:20
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-03-26 17:21
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-03-26 17:23
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-03-27 10:41
  8. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-03-28 17:31
  9. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-03-28 17:32
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-03-28 18:34
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