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Identification

Reference as: MPL00267
Title Bilingual funerary inscription
Trismegistos-No. 566947

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context via Nomentana, catacomb of Sant' Alessandro
Latitude 41.9624
Longitude 12.5941
Current Location Roma, via Nomentana, catacomb of Sant'Alessandro
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

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

width: 64.0 cm

height: 45.0 cm

depth: 4.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 3.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 4.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate verses - Interpunctions

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


[---]DVSTRIE
[---]TVLVSINDICAT
[---]VETITVLOCLARIVS
[---]LI[···]ISPRAECELLVI
5[---]DECVNCTISREBVSPRAEFERES

[---]ΣΥΠΕΡΣΟΦΙΗΝΜΕΓΑΛΟΙΟ
[---]ΣΤΕΡΙΩΔΙΔΟΝΑΙ
[---]ΜΠΕΣΕΝΙΖΩΟΙΣΙΝΕΩΟΣ
[---]ΕΙΣΕΣΠΕΡΟΣΕΝΦΘΙΜΕΝΟΙΣ

[--- in]dustrie
[--- ti]tulus indicat
[---]ve titulo clarius
[---]LI [c. 3]is praecellui
5[---] de cunctis rebus praeferes.

[---] σύ περ σοφίην μεγάλοιο
[--- ἀ]στερίω διδόναι
[--- ἔλα]μπες ἐνὶ ζωοῖσιν ἑῷος
[--- λάμπ]εις Ἕσπερος ἐν φθιμένοις.

[--- in]dustrie
[--- ti]tulus indicat
[---]ve titulo clarius
[---]LI [c. 3]is praecellui
5[---] de cunctis rebus praeferes.

[---] σύ περ σοφίην μεγάλοιο
[--- ἀ]στερίω διδόναι
[--- ἔλα]μπες ἐνὶ ζωοῖσιν ἑῷος
[--- λάμπ]εις Ἕσπερος ἐν φθιμένοις.
Apparatus

Text follows the drawing of Ferrua.
L. 3: quo[ve] Ferrua.

Main Translation

Translation ... bustling ... the inscription indicates ... clearer than the inscription ... I have excelled ... of all things you prefer ...
... but you the wisdom of the great ... gave the star … Before, you shone as a dawn among the living, but now, deceased, you shine as an evening star among the departed.
Citation Alexander Gangoly

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Comment

Dimensions above are for the larger fragment. The smaller fragment measures 12x12. L. 8–9: ἀστὴρ πρὶν μὲν ἔλαμπες ἐνὶ ζῳοῖσιν Ἑῷος, νῦν δὲ θανὼν λάμπεις Ἕσπερος ἐν φθιμένοις according to Laertius composed by Plato for Dion of Syracus. In a modified form also in IGUR 03, 01256.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 201 AD
Date (To) 300 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2025-03-31, by Alexander Gangoly
Work Status Confirmed
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