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Identification

Reference as: MPL01681
Title Epitaph of Prophasis by her mother Pollia Helena
Trismegistos-No. 513486

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Alberona
Find Context Alberona (Foggia), Bosco della Mezzana locality, 1987.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Alberona (Foggia)
Inventory number
Current Location Details Alberona, in the so-called "Villetta comunale".
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type block
Material limestone
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 50.0 cm

height: 46.0 cm

depth: 35.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.8
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Unknown

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography Inscription within moulded frame.
Decoration Tags
  • Architecture / frame

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • No distinction
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Right aligned
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Left aligned
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partyes
    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


SICITERHOCFELIXTIBISIT
CONSISTEVATORETMEFATA
BREVIPERCIPENOTITIA:
PROPASIFFVERATMIHINOMEN
5FLOREIVENTAEEREPTAEX
OCLISMORTEGRAVFTENEOR
NAMMIHIBISQVATERNOS
AETASCOMPLVERATANNOS
AMISSAVITALVG͡EN͡TVTRQVE
10PARENS
MVLTAQVERIPOS
SIMORAGRATAFORET
..LLIAMLHELENAM͡ATER

Sic iter hoc felix tibi sit,
consiste vator et me fata
brevi percipe notitia:
Propasi⸢s⸣ fuerat mihi nomen.
5Flore iuentae erepta ex
oclis morte grav⸢e⸣ teneor,
nam mihi bis quaternos
aetas complverat annos.
Amissa vita lug͡en͡t utrque
10parens.
Multa queri pos(sis)
si mora grata foret.
P̣ọllia M(arci) l(iberta) Helena m͡ater.

Sic iter hoc felix tibi sit, consiste vator
et me fata brevi percipe notitia:
Propasi⸢s⸣ fuerat mihi nomen. Flore iuentae
erepta ex oclis morte grav⸢e⸣ teneor,
nam mihi bis quaternos aetas complverat annos.
Amissa vita lug͡en͡t utrque parens.

Multa queri pos(sis) si mora grata foret.
P̣ọllia M(arci) l(iberta) Helena m͡ater.
Apparatus

l.2 reg., orig. vator | reg., orig. me
l.4 s
l.5 reg., orig. iuentae
l.6 reg., orig. oclis | e
l.8 reg., orig. complverat
l.9 reg., orig. utrque

Text follows Silvestrini 1996. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 4: reg., Prophasis.
l. 13: Pollia, AE.

Main Translation

Translation May your journey be thus happy. Stay, traveller, and learn in a few words about my fate: Prophasis has been my name. Snatched away from existence I am now prisoner of harsh death, for I had reached twice the age of four. Both parents mourn their life reason being lost. You could show your grief, if this rest was appreciated.

The mother Pollia Helena, freedwoman of Marcus.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameProphasis
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeInfant (0–12) [expression: Non-canonical, precision: high]
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusUnknown
    RoleDedicatee
  • NamePollia Helena
    GenderFemale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicator
  • NameMarcus Pollius
    GenderMale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusRoman citizen

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed in AE 1996.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 201 AD
Date (To) 300 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2025-06-06, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-29T09:53:04, ID there: EDR153165
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-29 09:53
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-26 17:54
  3. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-26 17:55
  4. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-11-26 17:55
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-04 14:03
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-07 08:33
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-07 09:02
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-08 13:34
  9. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-10 13:17
  10. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-10 13:29
  11. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-10 13:36
  12. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-19 13:50
  13. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-19 13:56
  14. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-19 14:03
  15. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-20 16:03
  16. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-06 10:56
  17. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-06 10:56
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