Inscriptions: Epitaph of Matia Vera by her husband Pusinnonius Dubitatus

Identification

Reference as:	MPL02186
Title	Epitaph of Matia Vera by her husband Pusinnonius Dubitatus
Trismegistos-No.	981194

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Lugdunum
Find Context	District of Saint-Just, area of Trion, inside a well, 1885.
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Lyon, Musée Gallo-Romain Lyon Fourvière
Inventory number	AD346
Current Location Details
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Qui legis \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of Murra and Verecundus by their parents"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2190, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2190", "long_id": "MPL02190", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "Pediment: D(is) ((ascia)) `et\u00b4 ((ascia)) M(anibus\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/L030Concha-scaled.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Blandinia Martiola by her husband Pompeius Catussa"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2191, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2191", "long_id": "MPL02191", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "Architrave: D(is) ((ascia)) M(anibus) Epigraphic \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/L029ABH-scaled.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Marcus Aurelius Faustinus by his stepfather and mother"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2196, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2196", "long_id": "MPL02196", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "------ [. c. 7.] doluit nisi mortis. ( vac. 3) \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Imagen1.jpg", "title": "Epitaph on sarcophagus by Reginus to his wife"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2197, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2197", "long_id": "MPL02197", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "Pediment: D(is) ((ascia)) M(anibus) Architrave: \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/DSC_0023-scaled.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Iulia Filemation by his foster son Gaius Cottius Theodotus and his two freedwomen"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2199, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2199", "long_id": "MPL02199", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "D(is) `et que\u0361ti aet\u0361ernae\u00b4 M(anibus) Touti Incita\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/L048retocada.-C.-Fern%C3%A1ndez-scaled.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Toutius Incitatus by his freedman Toutius Marcellus"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2202, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2202", "long_id": "MPL02202", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "Pediment: ((ascia)) Architrave: Diis Manibus Epi\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/L012b.Foto-de-F.-B%C3%A9rard.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Facundinia Germana by her husband Caius Secundinius Hylas"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2203, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2203", "long_id": "MPL02203", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "------ [---]f\u0323+[---] [---]+en curio\u0323[sus] [c. 2\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/L034-RC-1.jpg", "title": "Memorial of a shipwreck from Lugdunum"}, {"coords": [45.7589, 4.81948], "id": 2204, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2204", "long_id": "MPL02204", "place": "Lugdunum", "text": "Pediment: ((ascia)) Architrave: Have Modii, \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$CIL_13_02216.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Septicia Gemina by her husband Lucius Modius Annianus"}, {"coords": [43.8432, 4.35418], "id": 2193, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2193", "long_id": "MPL02193", "place": "Nemausus", "text": "Hoc monimentum maesoleumque mo-nimentorum caus{s}a\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph dedicated by Hostilia"}, {"coords": [43.8432, 4.35418], "id": 2195, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2195", "long_id": "MPL02195", "place": "Nemausus", "text": "[------?] [--- p]atroni famam barbar[---] cuius \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Testamentary inscription of a jurisconsult"}, {"coords": [44.2404, 5.07335], "id": 806, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/806", "long_id": "MPL00806", "place": "Vasio Vocontiorum", "text": "Front \u03b5\u1f30\u03b8\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c1\u03b9 \u03c4\u1f7b\u03c7\u03b7\u03c2 \u0392\u1f75\u03bb\u1ff3 \u03a3\u1f73\u03be\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b8\u1f73\u03c4\u03bf \u03b2\u03c9-\u03bc\u1f79\u03bd,\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db-edcs-eu.uaccess.univie.ac.at/epigr/bilder/$CIL_12_01277_1.jpg", "title": "Votive inscription by Sextus on an altar to Belus"}, {"coords": [45.7797, 3.08682], "id": 982, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/982", "long_id": "MPL00982", "place": "Augustonemetum", "text": "Sanctis [contiguus sacroque patri] vivit sic [meri\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Augustonemetum \u2013 Clermont-Ferrand (Aquitania) - 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Object Details

Object Type	altar
Material	limestone
State of Preservation	complete
Dimensions	width: 41.0 cm height: 80.0 cm depth: 37.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	2.0
Letter Size in cm (max)	3.5
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography	Altar with moulded base and pulvinus, surmounted by an architrave on which rests a pediment with volutes. Ascia engraved between D(is) and M(anibus) on the architrave.
Decoration Tags	Architecture / Altar Architecture / Moulding Architecture / Pediment Architecture / architrave Architecture / base Architecture / pulvinus Architecture / volute Object / Ascia

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence	Praescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
Prose Verse Distinction	Yes, by bigger lettering in prose Yes, by hedera
Layout Types (Prose)	Justified
Layout Types (Verse)	Justified
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	yes
Verse Line Correspondence	No, 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)	Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

Architrave:
D ascia MEpigraphic field:
ETMEMORIAEAET
MATIAEVERAEQVAEME
CVMVIXAN͡NXXXVIMIII
5DXSINEVLLANIMILAESIO
NE

LONGVSAMORPERI͡TDIREP
TAMORT͡ERECEPTVTINAMNOS
FATVSTEXISSE͡TVTROSQVE hedera

PVSIN͡NONDVBITATVSCON
10IVGINCOMPARABDEQVANI
[]ILDOLVINISIMORTEM
[]CETSVBASCIADEDICA͡VI͡T

Architrave:
D(is) ((ascia)) M(anibus) Epigraphic field:
et memoriae aet(ernae)
Matiae Verae, quae me-
cum vix(it) an͡n(os) XXXVI, m(enses) III,
5d(ies) X, sine ulla nimi laesio-
ne.-

Longus amor per<i>i͡t, direp-
ta mort͡e recept(a). Utinam nos
fatus texisse͡t utrosque. ((hedera))

Pusin͡non(ius) Dubitatus con-
10iug(i) incomparab(ili), de qua ni
[h]il dolui nisi mortem,
[p(onendum)] c(uravit) et sub ascia dedica͡vi͡t.

Architrave: D(is) ((ascia)) M(anibus) Epigraphic field: et memoriae aet(ernae) Matiae Verae, quae mecum vix(it) an͡n(os) XXXVI, m(enses) III, d(ies) X, sine ulla nimi laesione.

Longus amor per<i>i͡t, direpta mort͡e recept(a).
Utinam nos fatus texisse͡t utrosque. ((hedera))

Pusin͡non(ius) Dubitatus coniug(i) incomparab(ili), de qua ni [h]il dolui nisi mortem, [p(onendum)] c(uravit) et sub ascia dedica͡vi͡t.

Apparatus

Text follows CIL and CLE. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
ll. 6-7: Longus amor periit direptus a morte, Allmer and Dissard.
ll. 7-8: truncated hexameter. [coniuge] nos utinam, CLE. [una] nos utinam fatus texisset utrosque, CIL.

Main Translation

Translation	Architrave: To the Manes and to the eternal memory of Matia Vera, who lived by my side for thirty-six years, three months and ten days, without causing pain to my heart. A long-lasting love has perished, she was snatched away by sudden death. If only fate had buried us together! Posinnonius Dubitatus took care to arrange this monument and dedicated it under the ascia, to his incomparable wife, whom I never grieved for, except for her death.
Citation	Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Aux dieux Mânes et à la mémoire éternelle de Matia Vera, qui a vécu avec moi trente-six ans, trois mois et dix jours, sans m'avoir jamais fait aucune peine. Notre long amour a péri brisé par la mort. Plût aux dieux que le destin que tu as subi nous eût couchés tous les deux en même temps dans la tombe! Pusinnonius Dubitatus à mon épouse incomparable, de qui je n'ai jamais reçu d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort, ai élevé ce tombeau et l'ai dédié sous l'ascia. (French , A. Allmer, P. Dissard)
Un prolongado amor ha perecido. Me la quitaron al sobrevenirle la muerte. ¡Ojalá el destino nos hubiese enterrado a ambos! (Spanish, C. Fernández Martínez, 1998)
A los dioses Manes y a la memoria eterna de Macia Vera, que vivió conmigo 36 años, 3 meses y 10 días sin causar ningún pesar a mi alma. Un prolongado amor ha perecido, tras haber sido arrebatada por una muerte sobrevenida. ¡Ojalá el destino nos hubiese enterrado juntos a ambos! Pusinonio Dubitato para su esposa incomparable -por cuya causa nada sufrí salvo por su muerte- se ocupó de que se hiciera y la dedicó bajo el ascia. (Spanish, C. Fernández Martínez, 2020)

Prosopographical Information

Name Matia Vera
Gender Female
Age Range Adult (21–60) [precision: undetermined]
Role Dedicatee
Name Pusinnonius Dubitatus
Gender Male
Role Dedicator

Name	Matia Vera
Gender	Female
Age Range	Adult (21–60) [precision: undetermined]
Role	Dedicatee

Name	Pusinnonius Dubitatus
Gender	Male
Role	Dedicator

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by Allmer and Dissard.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	101 AD
Date (To)	200 AD
Date (Criteria)	palaeography

Bibliography

CLE 00444
CIL 13, 02205
A. Allmer, P. Dissard, Musée de Lyon. Inscriptions antiques, Vol. 3, Lyon 1890, 315-318, nr. 346 (with French translation) 🔗 link
J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 109, nr. 289h. 🔗 link
C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 250-251, nr. 444 (Spanish translation of the hexameters) 🔗 link
A. Le Mer, C. Chomer, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 69.2: Lyon, Paris 2007, 609. 🔗 link
C. Fernández Martínez, CLE 444 o la intachable vida de Macia Vera. In: M. Limón Belén (ed.), C. Fernández Martínez (ed.), Sub Ascia. Estudios sobre Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Seville 2020, 379-392 (with Spanish translation and photos, 381-382, figs. 1-3) - AE 2020 🔗 link
AE 2020, 0005
CLEO L013 🔗 link
EDCS-10501162 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

Images

Epitaph of Matia Vera by her husband Pusinnonius Dubitatus.
Source: CLEO L013 (c) A. Bolaños Herrera

Editing History

Created	2025-12-18, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status	Complete
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