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Identification

Reference as: MPL00266
Title Funerary inscription on a slab
Trismegistos-No. 566938

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context via Nomentana, catacomb of Sant' Alessandro
Latitude 41.9623
Longitude 12.5938
Current Location Roma, via Nomentana, catacomb of Sant'Alessandro
Inventory number
Current Location Details „murata nella chiusura di un grande loculo“ Ferrua
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 45.0 cm

height: 23.0 cm

depth: 3.5 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.5
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by different layout
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Centered
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate verses - Hedera

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Greek
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations


ΕΥΝΗΣΩΦΡΟΣΥΝΗΣΚ[---]
ΣΕΜΝΟΤΑΤΗΠΑΣΩΝΗΡ[---]
ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ hedera ΣΤΟΡΓΗΣΑ[---]
ΤΕΛΟΣΚΟΝΙΣΕΝΘΑ[---]
5ΜΕΤΑΤΡΙΣΚΑΙΔΕΚΕΤ[---]
ΜΝΗΜ[]

Εὐνὴ σωφροσύνης Κ[---]
σεμνοτάτη πασῶν ΗΡ[---]
ὁμόνοια ((hedera)) στοργῆς Α[---]
τέλος κόνις ἔνθα [---]
5μετὰ τρισκαίδεκ’ ἔτ[η ---]
μνήμ[ης χάριν?].

Εὐνὴ σωφροσύνης Κ[---]
σεμνοτάτη πασῶν ΗΡ[---] ὁμόνοια ((hedera))
στοργῆς Α[---] τέλος κόνις ἔνθα
[---] μετὰ τρισκαίδεκ’ ἔτ[η ---]

5μνήμ[ης χάριν?].
Apparatus

Text follows the edition of Ferrua. L. 4–5 corrected by Gangoly 2024.

Main Translation

Translation The wife of self-control ... the most pious of all ... unity of love ... in the end (lies) the dust here after 13 years. For the sake of memory.
Citation Alexander Gangoly

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Have Squeeze? no

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Editing History

Created 2025-03-31, by Alexander Gangoly
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice
Revisions
  1. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-01 14:24
  2. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-01 14:37
  3. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-01 14:39
  4. by Alexander Gangoly
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  5. by Alexander Gangoly
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  6. by Alexander Gangoly
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  7. by Alexander Gangoly
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  8. by Alexander Gangoly
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    at 2023-03-01 15:13
  10. by Alexander Gangoly
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  11. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-01 15:15
  12. by Alexander Gangoly
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  13. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-01 15:18
  14. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-01 15:24
  15. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-01 15:26
  16. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-02 09:23
  17. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-02 09:25
  18. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-07 11:35
  19. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-28 06:58
  20. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-03-28 06:59
  21. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-05-22 07:34
  22. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-05-22 08:08
  23. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 08:20
  24. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 08:33
  25. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 08:48
  26. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 08:55
  27. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 08:56
  28. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 09:05
  29. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 09:08
  30. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-04-12 09:11
  31. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-01-17 12:38
  32. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-04 14:39
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