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Identification

Reference as: MPL02022
Title Funerary inscription for Posilla Senenia and Quarta Senenia
Trismegistos-No. 553403

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Trebula Mutuesca
Find Context Monteleone Sabino (Rieti)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Genzano Romano (Roma), nel giardino della famiglia Sforza-Cesarini
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material local stone
State of Preservation fragmentary (only partially adjoining fragments)
Dimensions

width: 136.0 cm

height: 44.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 5.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 6.5
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceProse + Verse
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • iambo-trochaic rhythm
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

POSILLASENENIAQVARTFQVARTASENENIACL

HOSPESRESISTEETPA[]̲RSCRIPTVMPERLIG[]:
MATREMNONLICITVMESS[]CAGNATAFRVEI
QVAMNEIESSETCREDONESCI[]INVEIDITDEVS
5EAMQVONIAMHAVDLICITVM[]EIVAMAMATRE̲ORNARIE[]
POSTMORTEMHOCFECITAEQ[]MEXTREMOTEMPORE
DECORAVITEAMMONVMENTOQVAMDEILEXSERAT
Posilla Senenia Quart(- - -) f(ilia); Quarta Senenia C(ai) l(iberta).

Hospes, resiste et pa[rite]̲r scriptum perlig[e]:
matrem non licitum ess[e uni]ca gnata fruei,
quam nei esset, credo, nesci[o qui] inveidit deus;
5eam quoniam haud licitum [est v]eivam, a matre ̲ornarie[r]
post mortem hoc fecit aeq[uo]m extremo tempore,
decoravit eam monumento, quam deilexserat.
Posilla Senenia Quart(- - -) f(ilia); Quarta Senenia C(ai) l(iberta).

Hospes, resiste et pa[rite]̲r scriptum perlig[e]:
matrem non licitum ess[e uni]ca gnata fruei,
quam nei esset, credo, nesci[o qui] inveidit deus;
eam quoniam haud licitum [est v]eivam, a matre ̲ornarie[r]
post mortem hoc fecit aeq[uo]m extremo tempore,
decoravit eam monumento, quam deilexserat.
Apparatus

l.2 perlig[e] orig., reg. perlege
l.3 fruei orig., reg. frui
l.4 nei orig., reg. ne | inveidit orig., reg. invidit
l.5 [v]eivam orig., reg. vivam
l.7 deilexserat orig., reg. dilexerat

Text follows CIL.

Main Translation

Translation Posilla Senenia, daughter of Quarta: Quarta Senenia, freedwoman of Gaius.
Stranger, stand still and simultaneously read what is written here, namely that a mother was not allowed to enjoy her only daughter. Some god or other, I believe, did not grant her the right to be. And as her mother was not permitted to adorn her in life, she did so in her last moment, after her death, as was fair: she adorned her, whom she had loved, with a monument.
Citation Peter Kruschwitz

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Prosopographical Information

  • NamePosilla Senenia
    GenderFemale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameQuarta Senenia
    GenderFemale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 70 BC
Date (To) 30 BC
Date (Criteria)
  • language
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2026-07-28, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-29T14:02:48, ID there: EDR186812
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-08-29 14:02
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-09-18 09:30
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-09-18 09:31
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 09:44
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 09:57
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-07-28 09:59
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-28 12:03
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-28 12:21
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-28 12:24
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-28 12:29
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