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Identification

Reference as: MPL02157
Title Epitaph of Zoticus
Trismegistos-No. 515087

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Beneventum
Find Context Benevento, outside the Porta Aurea (Arch of Trajan), end of the 15th century. Then in Naples.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Lost
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type unknown
Material unknown
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

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

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
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Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations


ZOTICVSHICNOMENNVDVM
VANVMQRELIQVIT
INCINERESCORPVSETINAETHERA
VITASOLVTAEST

Zoticus hic nomen nudum
vanumq(ue) reliquit,
in cineres corpus et in aethera
vita soluta est.

Zoticus hic nomen nudum vanumq(ue) reliquit,
in cineres corpus et in aethera vita soluta est.
Apparatus

Text follows CIL 09 and CLE.

Main Translation

Translation Zoticus has left here his bare and void name. His body was turned into ashes and his life was dissolved in the ether.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameZoticus
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed in Colafrancesco and Massaro 1986.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • formulae

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Editing History

Created 2025-05-28, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice
Revisions
  1. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-12 07:02
  2. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-12 07:42
  3. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-12 07:43
  4. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-19 16:00
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-19 16:36
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-05-19 16:37
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-28 15:26
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-28 15:28
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