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Identification

Reference as: MPL00288
Title Taurobolium of Γα[μα?]λ̣ίος
Trismegistos-No. 640701

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Palace of the Convertendi ad S. Petri plateam (in Phrygiano) (a. 1919)
Latitude 41.9027
Longitude 12.4608
Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Profano
Inventory number 9936
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type altar
Material
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 69.0 cm

height: 58.0 cm

depth: 62.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 2.5
Letter Size in cm (max) 3.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography Pulvini on each side, on the front with flowers in it; lat. dex.: pine tree with pan flute and tympanum hanging in its branches; underneath an aulus(?), a pedum and a bull; lat. sin.: pine tree with crotala, pan flute and a pileus Phrygius hanging in its branches; ram; par. aversa: patera between taedae transversae; left a pedum, right an urceus
Decoration Tags
  • Animal / bull
  • Animal / ram
  • Architecture / pulvinus
  • Object / Musical instrument
  • Object / Patera
  • Object / Phrygian cap
  • Object / Urceus
  • Object / weapon
  • Plant / Pine cone

Verse Layouts

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

Text

Function dedication / votive inscription
Language(s)
  • Greek
Verse Type(s)
  • Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations


ΕΡΓΑΝΟΟΝΠΡΗΞΙΝΒΙΟΝΕΞΟΧΟΝΕΣΘΛΑΠΡΟΠΑΝΤΑ
ΓΑ[]ΙΟΥΠΡΑΠΙΔΩΝΤΟΥΤΟΦΕΡΩΤΟΘΥΜΑ
ΟΣ·ΠΑΛΙΝΟΡΣΟΝΕΠΕΥΡΥΒΙΗΝΠΑΛΙΤΑΥΡΟΝ
ΗΓΑΓΕΚΑΙΚΡΕΙΟΝΣΥΜΒΟΛΟΝΕΥΤΥΧΙΗΣ
5ΟΚΤΩΓΑΡΛΥΚΑΒΑΝΤΑΣΕΠΕΙΚΟΣΙΝΗΡΕΜΕΟΝΤΑΣ
ΝΥΚΤΑΔΙΑΣΚΕΔΑΣΑΣΑΥΘΙΣΕΘΗΚΕΦΑΟΣ
[---]...ΗΚΥ····ΙΝΟΟΣ.ΜΩΝ

Ἔργα, νόον, πρῆξιν, βίον ἔξοχον, ἐσθλὰ πρόπαντα
Γα[μα?]λ̣ίου πραπίδων, τοῦτο φέρω τὸ θῦμα·
ὃς Δ̣Η̣+Ι̣Σ̣ παλίνορσον ἐπ’ Εὐρυβίην πάλι ταῦρον
ἤγαγε καὶ κρειόν, σύμβολον εὐτυχίης.
5ὀκτὼ γὰρ λυκάβαντας ἐπ’ εἴκοσιν ἠρεμέοντας
νύκτα διασκεδάσας αὖθις ἔθηκε φάος.
[---]α̣ν̣ι̣η ΚΥc. 4Ι νόος ἡ̣μῶν.

Ἔργα, νόον, πρῆξιν, βίον ἔξοχον, ἐσθλὰ πρόπαντα
Γα[μα?]λ̣ίου πραπίδων, τοῦτο φέρω τὸ θῦμα·
ὃς Δ̣Η̣+Ι̣Σ̣ παλίνορσον ἐπ’ Εὐρυβίην πάλι ταῦρον
ἤγαγε καὶ κρειόν, σύμβολον εὐτυχίης.
5ὀκτὼ γὰρ λυκάβαντας ἐπ’ εἴκοσιν ἠρεμέοντας
νύκτα διασκεδάσας αὖθις ἔθηκε φάος.
[---]α̣ν̣ι̣η ΚΥc. 4Ι νόος ἡ̣μῶν.
Apparatus

Text follows IGUR, checked with picture by A. Gangoly 2023.
l. 2: Γα[μα]λίου Fabre; Γαιδαλίου Guarducci.
l. 3: Δ[ηοῦ]ς Fabre; Δη̣ο̣ῖ̣ Wilamowitz in SEG 02; δεῖος Guarducci.
l. 7: ανιη κυ αἷμα Guarducci.

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Dating

Date (From) 301 AD
Date (To) 400 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology
  • history
  • palaeography

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Created 2025-03-31, by Alexander Gangoly
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