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Identification

Reference as: MPL02207
Title Epitaph of the freedwoman Murcia
Trismegistos-No. 221405

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Asido
Find Context Placed on the ground at the entrance of a local church. First seen and transmitted by the Anonymus Taurinensis (fol. 678v).
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Lost
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type unknown
Material local stone
State of Preservation incomplete
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 Unknown

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

MVRCIALIBERTA
IVVENISANXXVIII

SEMPERETINFLORE
SITTIBITERRALEVIS

5KS
STTL
Murcia liberta,
iuvenis an(norum) XXVIII.

Semper et in flore,
sit tibi terra levis.

5K(ara) s(uis),
s(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).
Murcia liberta, iuvenis an(norum) XXVIII.

Semper et in flore, sit tibi terra levis.
K(ara) s(uis),

s(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).
Apparatus

l.5 reg., orig. Kara

Text follows CLEBaeticae and CLE 04.
l. 1: Marcia, CIL (1848); Padilla Monge.

Main Translation

Translation Murcia, a freedwoman and a young girl of twenty-eight years.

Always in blooming youth, may the earth rest lightly upon you.

Beloved by her family, may the earth be light on you.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameMurcia
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by Camacho (CLEBaeticae). Cugusi (CLEHisp and CLE 04) proposes a dating to the early 1st century AD, though without criteria.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 171 AD
Date (To) 230 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • formulae
  • language

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Editing History

Created 2025-09-08, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status Complete
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Revisions
  1. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-06 06:43
  2. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-06 07:00
  3. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-06 07:05
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-06 07:53
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-06 07:54
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-08-06 13:29
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-08-06 13:30
  8. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-09-03 05:56
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-09-08 11:30
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