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Identification

Reference as: MPL00202
Title Funerary inscription for Σαλώμη (Salome)
Trismegistos-No. 281383

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Porta Salaria, Corso d'Italia, Sepulcro Salario (ca. 1886)
Latitude 41.9132
Longitude 12.4948
Current Location Roma, Musei Capitolini
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 24.0 cm

height: 13.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.7
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate verses - Vacat
    • To separate verses - Interpunctions

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


[]ΛΩΜΗΚΟΥΦΗΣΕΠΕΧΕΙΚΟΝ
[]ΕΝΔΕΚΑΜΗΝΟΣΚΑΘΘΑΝΕΣΟΙ
[]ΤΙΣΤΟΝΠΑΣΙΛΙΠΟΥΣΑΠΟΘΟΝΜΗ
ΡΙΔΕΣΗΜΑΛΑΠΙΚΡΟΝΕΠΕΙΠΡΩΘ
5ΗΒΙΝΕΤΟΥΣΑΝΜΗ⌜Τ⌝ΕΡΕΠΕΙΤΑ
ΙΗΣΛΕΙΠΕΣΑΠΑΙΔΑΤΕΗΝΑΡ
[]ΙΔΑΙΣΠΟΘΕΟΥΣΑΔΕΝΙΓΡΑΨ[]
ΟΚΕΥΣΙΝΑΡΑΤΑΙΠΕ[]
[]ΨΑΝΑΣΟΙΣΠΑΤΡΑΣ[]

[Σα]λώμη, κούφη σ’ ἐπέχει κόν-
[ις]· ἑνδεκάμηνος κάθθανες οἴ-
[κ]τιστον πᾶσι λιποῦσα πόθον, μη-
τ̣ρὶ δὲ σῇ μάλα πικρόν, ἐπεὶ πρωθ-
5ῆβιν ἔτ’ οὖσαν μη⌜τ⌝έρ’ ἐπ’ Εἰτα-
λ̣ίης λεῖπες ἄπαιδα τεήν. Ἀρ-
[+2+]λ̣ίδαις ποθέουσα δ’ ἐνὶ γράψ[αι σε]
τ̣οκεῦσιν ἀρᾶται πέμ̣[ψειν]
[λεί]ψανα σοῖς πατράσ[ιν].

[Σα]λώμη, κούφη σ’ ἐπέχει κόν[ις]· ἑνδεκάμηνος
κάθθανες οἴ[κ]τιστον πᾶσι λιποῦσα πόθον,
μητ̣ρὶ δὲ σῇ μάλα πικρόν, ἐπεὶ πρωθῆβιν ἔτ’ οὖσαν
μη⌜τ⌝έρ’ ἐπ’ Εἰταλ̣ίης λεῖπες ἄπαιδα τεήν.
5Ἀρ[+2+]λ̣ίδαις ποθέουσα δ’ ἐνὶ γράψ[αι σε] τ̣οκεῦσιν
ἀρᾶται πέμ̣[ψειν λεί]ψανα σοῖς πατράσ[ιν].
Apparatus

Text follows the edition of IGUR. Picture checked by Gangoly 2024.

Main Translation

Translation Salome, the light dust takes you. You died at the age of 11 months, leaving behind lamentable longing to all, but very bitter for your mother, because you left your mother, who was still in her prime, childless in Italy. She longs for you to be enrolled in the Ar[...]lida parents’ (grave) and swears to send the remains to your forefathers.
Citation Alexander Gangoly

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • Name[Σα]λώμη
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeInfant (0–12) [expression: Non-canonical]
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

L. 1–4 separated by a punctum, l. 4–5 not separated, l. 5–6 with a space.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

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

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Editing History

Created 2025-03-31, by Alexander Gangoly
Work Status Confirmed
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Revisions
  1. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-30 14:27
  2. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 11:28
  3. by Alexander Gangoly
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  4. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 11:58
  5. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 12:26
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  7. by Alexander Gangoly
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  8. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 14:18
  9. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 14:19
  10. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 14:19
  11. by Alexander Gangoly
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  12. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 14:27
  13. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-11 15:16
  14. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-01-17 11:41
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