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Identification

Reference as: MPL01811
Title Funerary inscription for Chreste
Trismegistos-No. 496334

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Nursia (Cascia)
Find Context Ferentillo (Terni), Abbazia di Pietro in Valle
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Ferentillo (Terni), Abbazia di Pietro in Valle
Inventory number
Current Location Details Walled in the left internal wall
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation fragmentary
Dimensions

width: 41.5 cm

height: 46.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 2.8
Letter Size in cm (max) 3.2
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, but follows metrical subdivisions

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

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CHRESTENVTRIC[---]
HVNCTVM[]

OCCIDITHAECLIBY[---]
NOSGRANDISA[---]
5PERFRETAPERTERR[---]
DVMSEQV[]
CORPVSHABETTELLV[---]
MEMBRASEDILLINC

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Chreste nutric[i ---]
hunc tum[ulum].

Occidit haec Liby[---]
nos grandis a[b ---]
5per freta, per terr[as ---]
dum sequ[itur].
Corpus habet tellu[s ---]
membra, sed illinc

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------ Chreste nutric[i ---] hunc tum[ulum].

Occidit haec Liby[---] nos grandis a[b ---]
per freta, per terr[as ---] dum sequ[itur].
Corpus habet tellu[s ---] membra, sed illinc
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Apparatus

Text follows EDR161019 (Spadoni 2017)
Metrical reconstruction according to Cordella and Criniti 2008:
[Grati animi testem, parvum sed munus, alumni]
Chreste nutric[i fecimus] hunc tum[ulum].
Occidit haec Liby[cis comitans] nos grandis a[b oris]
per freta, per terr[as sedula] dum sequ[itur].
Corpus habet tellu[s et pallida] membra, sed illinc
[exiit aetherius spiritus astra petens].

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameChreste
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 101 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2026-07-30, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-29T10:09:09, ID there: EDR161019
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-29 10:09
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-09-12 12:03
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-29 14:15
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-29 14:23
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-29 14:24
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-29 14:26
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-29 14:26
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-29 14:51
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-30 08:54
  10. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-30 09:36
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-30 11:12
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