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Identification

Reference as: MPL02061
Title Spearhead with encouraging inscription
Trismegistos-No.

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Cutry
Find Context Found in 1991 during excavations at the Merovingian necropolis. According to Legoux (2005, 84), this type of object appears in warrior graves from northern Gaul and the Rhineland
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Current Location Details
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Object Details

Object Type instrumentum (weapon)
Material iron
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 48.1 cm

height: unknown

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique incised
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags
  • Animal / dolphin
  • Architecture / Rosette

Verse Layouts

Text

Function personal messages / wish
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

Front
HAECINT[]RVA[]
STRINGATVENABVLASI[]VAS
Back
QVIGAVDETRABID[]
OBVIV[]REFERIS
Front
Haec int[e]r va[stas]
stringat venabula si[l]vas
Back
Qui gaudet rabid[is]
obviu[s i]re feris
Front

Haec int[e]r va[stas] stringat venabula si[l]vas
Back

Qui gaudet rabid[is] obviu[s i]re feris
Apparatus

Text follows González Berdús

Main Translation

Translation Que empuñe este venablo por los [vastos] bosques el que guste de salir al encuentro de bestias feroces
Citation V. González Berdús, Carmina Latina Epigraphica de la Galia Bélgica, 290, no. 39.

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Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 301 AD
Date (To) 400 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology

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Editing History

Created 2025-03-31, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Confirmed
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Revisions
  1. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-03-10 15:02
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-03-10 15:09
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-03-10 15:15
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-03-10 15:16
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-03-11 13:12
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-03-11 14:20
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-03-11 14:21
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-03-19 10:32
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