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Identification

Reference as: MPL02173
Title Epitaph of Vinicia Donata
Trismegistos-No. 442183

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Narbo Martius
Find Context Reused in a wall of the bastion of Saint-Félix. Then donated to the museum after demolition works, 1846.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Narbonne, Musée Lapidaire Lamourguier
Inventory number 1433
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type block
Material local stone
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 152.0 cm

height: 61.0 cm

depth: 23.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 5.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 10.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography Inscription within moulded frame.
Decoration Tags
  • Architecture / frame

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • No distinction
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Centered
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Centered
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo, just uses all available space
    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

VINICIAMLDONATA

MA.[]CLVSITCIRCVM
MONIMENT[]MSVOM
HICLOCVS
ETMACERIAHNSNLS
Vinicia M(arci) l(iberta) Donata.

Mac̣[e]ṛịạ cl<a>usit circum
moniment[u]m suom.
Hic locus
et maceria h(eredem) n(on) s(equentur) n(ec) l(ocus) s(epulturae).
Vinicia M(arci) l(iberta) Donata.

Mac̣[e]ṛịạ cl<a>usit circum moniment[u]m suom.
Hic locus et maceria h(eredem) n(on) s(equentur) n(ec) l(ocus) s(epulturae).
Apparatus

l.3 reg., orig. monimentum | reg., orig. suom

Text follows CIL. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 4: Heredes non sequuntur nisi libertos suos, Tournal; heredem non sequetur, CIL.

Main Translation

Translation Vinicia Donata, freedwoman of Marcus.

She surrounded her monument with a wall.

This place and the wall shall not pass onto the heir, nor shall the burial place.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameVinicia Donata
    GenderFemale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by Hirschfeld.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 30 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • (c) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum - BBAW

Editing History

Created 2025-06-27, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice
Revisions
  1. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-18 07:05
  2. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-18 07:13
  3. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-18 07:29
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-18 07:36
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-18 08:19
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-18 08:20
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-18 14:13
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-25 17:46
  9. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-26 09:44
  10. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-26 09:49
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-27 15:45
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-27 15:47
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