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Identification

Reference as: MPL01717
Title Epitaph of Crocale
Trismegistos-No. 496224

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Nursia (Cascia)
Find Context S. Anatolia di Narco (Perugia), Grotti hamlet, church of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Spoleto (Perugia), Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material local stone
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 49.0 cm

height: 52.0 cm

depth: 13.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 2.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 3.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Left aligned
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To mark a pentameter in an elegiac couplet (indentation)
    • To separate words - Interpunction

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


ARTIBVSINGENVISCVRAPE.DOCTASVORVM
SORTITAEGREGIVMCORPORISOMNEDECVS
NONDVMBISSEPTEMPLENISPRAEREPTASVBANNIS
HICCROCALECASTACONDIT.SEDEIACET
5LVDITEFELICESPATITVRDVMVITAPVELLAE:
SAEPEETFORMOSAEFATASINIST.AFERVNT

Artibus ingenuis cura peṛdocta suorum
sortita egregium corporis omne decus,
nondum bis septem plenis praerepta sub annis,
hic Crocale casta conditạ sede iacet.
5Ludite felices, patitur dum vita, puellae:
saepe et formosae fata sinistṛa ferunt.

Artibus ingenuis cura peṛdocta suorum
sortita egregium corporis omne decus,
nondum bis septem plenis praerepta sub annis,
hic Crocale casta conditạ sede iacet.
Ludite felices, patitur dum vita, puellae:
saepe et formosae fata sinistṛa ferunt.
Apparatus

Text follows CLE and CIL 11. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation Encouraged towards the study of the liberal arts by her parents' concern, bestowed with the extraordinary beauty of her body not, snatched away when she had not yet reached twice the age of seven, in this tomb lies virtuous Crocale. Enjoy yourselves, little girls, while life allows it: even the beautiful often endure perverse fates.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameCrocale
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20) [expression: Non-canonical, precision: low]
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by R. Cordella and N. Criniti 1988.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 100 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • (c) EDCS

Editing History

Created 2025-05-28, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-29T09:57:25, ID there: EDR156598
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-29 09:57
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-09-04 14:15
  3. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-11 11:54
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-04-11 11:58
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-13 10:02
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-20 13:43
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-21 06:38
  8. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-21 06:40
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-28 15:10
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