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Identification

Reference as: MPL00277
Title Funerary inscription of a mime
Trismegistos-No. 636534

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context unknown (according to IGUR III, p. 328 Latium)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Roma, Musei Capitolini
Inventory number
Current Location Details According to Peek, Griechische Grabgedichte
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 73.5 cm

height: 40.0 cm

depth: unknown

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

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography "In the centre of the slab is a panel shaped like a Maltese cross, surrounded by simple mouldings, and bearing an epigram in Greek … On each side of the inscription are reliefs of Erotes moving outwards, with heads turned to look back. They are winged and grasp in their hands the edges of a floating curtain or drapery." (Jones 1912)
Decoration Tags
  • God / Erotes
  • Symbol / cross

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣΔΕΙΞΑΣ
ΚΑΙΧΕΙΡΣΙΝΑΠΑΝΤΑ
ΛΑΛΗΣΑΣΕΜΠΕΙΡΟΣΒΡΟΜΙΟΙΟ
ΣΟΦΗΣΙΕΡΗΣΤΕΧΟΡΕΙΑΣΣΥΝΠΑΣΧΩΝ
5ΚΕΙΝΟΙΣΠΕΡΚΕΙΝΕΙΤΟΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΙΣ
ΚΟΣΜΗΣΑΣΠ.ΣΑΝΘΥΜΕΛΗΝΔΙΔΑΧΑΙΣ
ΠΟΛΥΔΟΞΟΙΣΟΥΤΟΣΟΠΑΙΔΙΑΣ
ΘΑΛΕΡΗΣΕΝΚΩΜΙΑΛΙΨΑΣ
ΚΕΙΤΕΔΕΓΗΡΑΒΕΒΑΡΗΝΟΣ
10ΟΥΚΕΘΑΝΕΝΓΑΡΖΩΣΗΣ
ΕΥΡΥΧΟΡΟΙΟΤΕΧΝΗΣ
ΑΡΕΤΑΙΣΙΜΑΘΗΤΩΝ

ἱστορίας δείξας
καὶ χειρσὶν ἅπαντα
λαλήσας, ἔμπειρος Βρομίοιο
σοφῆς ἱερῆς τε χορείας, συνπάσχων
5κείνοις <οἷσ>περ κεινεῖτο προσώποις,
κοσμήσας πᾶ̣σαν θυμέλην διδαχαῖς
πολυδόξοις, οὗτος ὁ παιδίας
θαλερῆς ἐνκώμια λίψας
κεῖτε δὲ γήρᾳ βεβαρη<μέ>νος·
10οὐκ ἔθανεν γάρ, ζώσης
εὐρυχόροιο τέχνης
ἀρεταῖσι μαθητῶν.

ἱστορίας δείξας καὶ χειρσὶν ἅπαντα λαλήσας,
ἔμπειρος Βρομίοιο σοφῆς ἱερῆς τε χορείας,
συνπάσχων κείνοις <οἷσ>περ κεινεῖτο προσώποις,
κοσμήσας πᾶ̣σαν θυμέλην διδαχαῖς πολυδόξοις,
5οὗτος ὁ παιδίας θαλερῆς ἐνκώμια λίψας
κεῖτε δὲ γήρᾳ βεβαρη<μέ>νος· οὐκ ἔθανεν γάρ,
ζώσης εὐρυχόροιο τέχνης ἀρεταῖσι μαθητῶν.
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l.9 reg., orig. δὲ

Text follows IG, checked on picture by A. Gangoly 2023.
l. 8: λ<ε>ίψας CIG.
l. 9: κεῖτ[αι] CIG.

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Created 2025-01-24, by Alexander Gangoly
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