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Identification

Reference as: MPL02175
Title Epitaph by Memmia Paramone to her son and daughter
Trismegistos-No. 448215

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Arelate
Find Context Found on the Via Aurelia, necropolis of Alyscamps, near the entryway into the city, 1929.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Arles, Musée départemental Arles antique
Inventory number FAN 92. 00. 101.
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material local stone
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 76.5 cm

height: 103.0 cm

depth: 23.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 4.2
Letter Size in cm (max) 6.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • No distinction
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Left aligned
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Left aligned
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate words - Interpunction

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


FLEBILEOPVSMATRIS
NATORVMHCOSSADVORVM
CONDIDITHIMATRIS
CONDEREDEBVERVNT
5MEMMIAMFPARAMON͡EVIVA
SIBIETLMEMMIOCELERIET
MEMMIAEVEGETAEFILIS

Flebile opus matris.
Natorum h<i>c ossa duorum
condidit. Hi matris
condere debuerunt.
5Memmia M(arci) f(ilia) Paramon͡e viva
sibi et L(ucio) Memmio Celeri et
Memmiae Vegetae filis.

Flebile opus matris. Natorum h<i>c ossa duorum
condidit. Hi matris condere debuerunt.
Memmia M(arci) f(ilia) Paramon͡e viva sibi et L(ucio) Memmio Celeri et Memmiae Vegetae filis.
Apparatus

l.7 reg., orig. filis

Text follows ILGN. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation What a painful toil for a mother! She buried here the bones of her two children. They should have buried those of their mother.

Memmia Paramone, daughter of Marcus made this while still alive for her children, Lucius Memmius Celer and Memmia Vegeta.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameMemmia Paramone
    GenderFemale
    OriginNative
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicator
  • NameLucius Memmius Celer
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameMemmia Vegeta
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Daing proposed by Belloc. Cugusi proposes a date to the early 1st century AD or earlier, though indicating no criteria.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 100 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • (c) H. Belloc

Editing History

Created 2025-06-25, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice
Revisions
  1. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-20 06:46
  2. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-20 07:15
  3. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-06-20 07:17
  4. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-25 17:54
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-25 17:54
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