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Identification

Reference as: MPL01677
Title Funerary inscription of Caius Domitius Primus
Trismegistos-No. 543024

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Ostia
Find Context Ostia antica (Roma), about a mile from Ostia along the Via Ostiense, 1783.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Inventory number 2567
Current Location Details depot
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation fragmentary (adjoining fragments)
Dimensions

width: 44.0 cm

height: 24.0 cm

depth: 3.5 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.5
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.5
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    • Yes, by smaller lettering in prose
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Centered
    • Justified
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Left aligned
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo
    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


DM
⟦C⟧CDOMITIPRIMI

HOCEGOSVINTVMVLOPRIMVSNOTISSI
MVSILLEVIXILVCRINISPOTABISAEPEFA
5LERNVMBALNIAVINAVENVSMECVM
SENVEREPERANNOSHECEGOSIPOTVI
SITMIHITERRALEBISETTAMENADMA
NESFO.NIXMESERBATINARAQVIME
CVMP.OPERATSEREPARARESIBI

10LDFVN[]RICDOMITIPRIMIATRIBVSMESSISHERMEROTEPIAETPIO

D(is) M(anibus)
⟦C⟧ C(aii) Domiti Primi.

Hoc ego su(m) in tumulo Primus notissi-
mus ille. Vixi Lucrinis, potabi saepe Fa-
5lernum; balnia, vina, Venus mecum
senuere per annos. Hec ego si potui,
sit mihi terra lebis. Et tamen ad Ma-
nes foẹnix me serbat in ara qui me
cum pṛoperat se reparare sibi.

10L(ocus) d(atus) fun[e]ri C(ai) Domiti Primi a tribus Messis Hermerote, Pia et Pio.
D(is) M(anibus) ⟦C⟧ C(aii) Domiti Primi. -

Hoc ego su(m) in tumulo Primus notissi|mus ille.
Vixi Lucrinis, potabi saepe Fa|(5)lernum;
balnia, vina, Venus mecum senuere per annos.
Hec ego si potui, sit mihi terra lebis.
Et tamen ad Ma|nes foẹnix me serbat in ara
qui me cum pṛoperat se reparare sibi.
L(ocus) d(atus) fun[e]ri C(ai) Domiti Primi a tribus Messis Hermerote, Pia et Pio.
Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. potabi
l.5 reg., orig. balnia
l.6 reg., orig. Hec
l.7 reg., orig. lebis
l.8 reg., orig. serbat

Text follows ILMN 01. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation To the soul of Gaius Domitius Primus.

I, that widely-known Primus, am in this tomb. I live on Lucrine oysters, I often drank Falernian wine; baths, wine, love aged with me through the years. If I was able to manage this, may the earth be light on me. Yet in the afterlife I am preserved by the phoenix on the altar, which hastens to renew itself along with me.

Site granted for the burial of Gaius Domitius Primus by the three Messii, Hermeros, Pia and Pius.
Citation E. Courtney

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameCaius Domitius Primus
    GenderMale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameMessius Hermeros
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicator
  • NameMessia Pia
    GenderFemale
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicator
  • NameMessius Pius
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicator

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by M. Cébeillac-Gervasoni, M. L. Caldelli, F. Zevi 2010. CIL Squeeze ID: EC0004650, Folder: q27, Material: paper.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 151 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • names
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • Squeeze of the epitaph of Caius Domitius Primus.

    Squeeze of the epitaph of Caius Domitius Primus.

    (c) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - BBAW

Editing History

Created 2025-06-06, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-29T09:52:37, ID there: EDR152251
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-29 09:52
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-26 17:46
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-04 14:07
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-04 13:34
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-04 13:38
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-04 13:41
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-12 12:17
  8. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-12 12:19
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-19 15:02
  10. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-19 16:42
  11. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-19 16:43
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-06 10:46
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