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Identification

Reference as: MPL02016
Title Epitaph of Novana Tryphera by her husband
Trismegistos-No. 552694

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Alba Fucens
Find Context Scurcola Marsicana (L'Aquila), hamlet of Cappelle dei Marsi, area known as Piedi la Grotta, 1869.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Avezzano (L'Aquila), L'Aia dei Musei
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type architrave
Material local stone
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 108.0 cm

height: 22.5 cm

depth: 34.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 3.8
Letter Size in cm (max) 8.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    • Yes, by different layout
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Centered
    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)
  • Iambic senarius
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

NOVANATLTRYPHERAE.[]

STVDIVMHABVIVTFACEREMVIVAMIHIA[---]
TVABONITASFECIT:TITVLVSDECLARATMEVSQV[---]
Novana T(iti) l(iberta) Tryphera ex̣ [testamento].

Studium habui ut facerem viva mihi aẹ[ternam domum: ---]
tua bonitas fecit: titulus declarat meus qu[---]
Novana T(iti) l(iberta) Tryphera ex̣ [testamento].

Studium habui ut facerem viva mihi aẹ[ternam domum: ---]
tua bonitas fecit: titulus declarat meus
qu[---]
Apparatus

Text follows CLE and C. Letta 2012. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 1: ex [testamento], Letta 2012.
l. 2: aet[ernam domum: mors intercessit, iam mihi, coniunx optime], CLE; aet[ernam domum, iam postquam mors praeripuit me, vir optime], CIL, Cholodniak.
l. 3: quo[d fuerit studium me erga pietatis tibi], CLE; quo[d nomen mihi, quae patria, qui coniunx fuit], CIL, Cholodniak.

Main Translation

Translation Novana Tryphera, freedwoman of Titus by will.

I wished to build my eternal abode when I was alive: [death interfered,] then your benevolence, [my outstanding husband,] did it for me. My epitaph proves [what heartfelt devotion you had towards me]
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameNovana Tryphera
    GenderFemale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by M. Buonocore (CIL 09).

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 31 AD
Date (To) 70 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • (c) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - BBAW

Editing History

Created 2025-06-09, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-29T14:01:49, ID there: EDR185259
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-29 14:01
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-10-28 16:01
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-10-28 16:02
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-26 09:09
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-26 10:07
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-26 11:34
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-26 11:36
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-06 11:59
  9. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-06 12:26
  10. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-06 12:28
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-09 10:58
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-09 11:06
  13. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-09 11:09
  14. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-09 11:11
  15. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-09 11:13
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