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Identification

Reference as: MPL02217
Title Epitaph of the gladiator Actius by his wife
Trismegistos-No. 223709

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Corduba
Find Context Camino Viejo de Almodóvar, hill behind the provincial hospital, inside an underground chamber, 1949.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Córdoba, Museo Arqueológico y Etnológico de Córdoba
Inventory number 10681
Current Location Details Hall III.
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material marble
State of Preservation fragmentary (adjoining fragments)
Dimensions

width: 37.5 cm

height: 22.0 cm

depth: 6.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.2
Letter Size in cm (max) 4.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    • Yes, by different layout
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Left aligned
    • Right aligned
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Right 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)
  • Iambic senarius
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

A.TIVSMVR hedera
VICVIANOXXIHSESTL
VXORVIRODESVO
QVOT
QVISQVISVESTRVMMORTVO
5OPTARITM«I»HIITILIDIFACIAN͡T
SEMPERVIVOETMORTVO
Ac̣tius mur(millo), ((hedera))
vic(it) VI, an(n)o(rum) XXI h(ic) s(itus) e(st). S(it) t(erra) l(evis).
Uxor viro de suo.
Quot
quisquis vestrum mortuo
5optarit m«i»hi it il<l>i di facian͡t
semper vivo et mortuo.
Ac̣tius mur(millo), ((hedera)) vic(it) VI, an(n)o(rum) XXI h(ic) s(itus) e(st). S(it) t(erra) l(evis). Uxor viro de suo.

Quot quisquis vestrum mortuo optarit m«i»hi
it il<l>i di facian͡t semper vivo et mortuo.
Apparatus

l.3 reg., orig. Quot
l.5 reg., orig. optarit | reg., orig. it

Text follows CIL 02 (2nd ed.). Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation The gladiator Actius, six times a winner, lies here at the age of twenty-one years. May the earth be light. His wife made this for her husband out of her own money.

Whatever any of you wished for me in death, may the gods always grant it to both the living and the dead.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameActius
    GenderMale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
    ProfessionOther profession
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by García y Bellido. Mariner Bigorra proposes a dating to the broad 1st century AD, based on language and palaeography.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 51 AD
Date (To) 100 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • formulae
  • language
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • Epitaph of the gladiator Actius by his wife.

    Epitaph of the gladiator Actius by his wife.

    Source: CLEO CO11 (c) M. Fuentes Aguilar

Editing History

Created 2025-09-08, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status Complete
Import Notice
Revisions
  1. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 08:12
  2. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 08:20
  3. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 08:43
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 09:45
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 09:45
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 09:46
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 09:52
  8. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-27 14:40
  9. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-09-03 08:01
  10. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-09-03 08:01
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-09-08 12:37
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