Inscriptions: Funerary inscription made by Florens for his wife

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00341
Title	Funerary inscription made by Florens for his wife
Trismegistos-No.	191244

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Melta / Chavdartsi
Find Context	Found in a mausoleum
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Sofia, National Archaeological Museum
Inventory number	5308
Current Location Details
Vicinity	[{"coords": [43.25, 25.0], "id": 341, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/341", "long_id": "MPL00341", "place": "Melta / Chavdartsi ", "text": "D(is) M(anibus). Siste viator iter animum[que \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription made by Florens for his wife"}, {"coords": [44.1726, 24.3924], "id": 818, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/818", "long_id": "MPL00818", "place": "Romula", "text": "D(is)M(anibus) s(acrum.) L(ucius) Annius Octavius \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription of L. Annius Octavius Valerianus"}, {"coords": [44.1742, 24.3972], "id": 97, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/97", "long_id": "MPL00097", "place": "Romula", "text": "D(is) M(anibus). Ael(io) Iul(io) Iuliano dec(urion\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://cil.bbaw.de/ace/id/KO0035564", "title": "Funerary inscription for Aelius Iulius Iulianus"}, {"coords": [43.4087, 23.2261], "id": 137, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/137", "long_id": "MPL00137", "place": "Montana", "text": "Cum primum veni Monta-nis et Numina vidi, deabus 5\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Votive altar dedicated by Mallia Aemiliana"}, {"coords": [43.4087, 23.2261], "id": 348, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/348", "long_id": "MPL00348", "place": "Montana", "text": "Apollini et Dianae Appius Cl(audius) Martialis [A]\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Altar to Diana and Apollo dedicated by Appius Claudius Martialis"}, {"coords": [44.0478, 26.6139], "id": 236, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/236", "long_id": "MPL00236", "place": "Transmarisca", "text": "D(is) [M](anibus). Hic ego qui iacior Va[leri\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele of Valeria"}, {"coords": [43.704, 24.4739], "id": 203, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/203", "long_id": "MPL00203", "place": "Oescus", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) S(extus) Vibius Valen[s] immere(n)\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele of S. Vibius Valens"}, {"coords": [43.704, 24.4739], "id": 204, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/204", "long_id": "MPL00204", "place": "Oescus", "text": "------ [---]M[---] [---ex]imio construxit [---] v\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fragmentary funerary inscription on a column"}, {"coords": [43.704, 24.4739], "id": 206, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/206", "long_id": "MPL00206", "place": "Oescus", "text": "------ [---]am debe[---] [---] tibi fatis ia[---]\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fragmentary funerary stele from Oescus"}, {"coords": [43.7053, 24.8952], "id": 207, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/207", "long_id": "MPL00207", "place": "Nikopol", "text": "[D](is) [ M(anibus?)] et b(onae) m(emoriae). Front\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Sarcophagus of Aelia dedicated by the dispensator Augustorum Fronto"}, {"coords": [43.6072, 25.394], "id": 208, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/208", "long_id": "MPL00208", "place": "Novae", "text": "I(ovi) O(ptimo) M(aximo) Depulsori pro salute d(om\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Dedication to Iuppiter Depulsor set up by the C. Baienius Ianuarius"}, {"coords": [43.6072, 25.394], "id": 218, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/218", "long_id": "MPL00218", "place": "Novae", "text": "\u0398(\u03b5\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2) \u039a(\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c7\u03b8\u03bf\u03bd\u03af\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2). \u039f\u1f54\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03ac \u03bc\u03bf\u03b9 \u0392\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03cd\u03c2 \u03ba\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele of Basileus"}, {"coords": [43.3, 25.2667], "id": 209, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/209", "long_id": "MPL00209", "place": "Nedan", "text": "[Hanc mortis sedem exstr]uxit sibi vivus amicus qu\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription of Muciana and Aurelius Dizze"}, {"coords": [43.3167, 24.0667], "id": 2, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2", "long_id": "MPL00002", "place": "Chomakovtsi", "text": "D(is) M(anibus). Have viator. Si stu-diosus es sis\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele of the praetorian soldier Aurelius Longinus"}, {"coords": [43.4, 24.2], "id": 263, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/263", "long_id": "MPL00263", "place": "Glava", "text": "Tu viator qui tr -ansis, rest(a), leg(e) tit(ulu\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele by the veteran Valerius Tzita"}, {"coords": [43.3046, 23.4211], "id": 264, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/264", "long_id": "MPL00264", "place": "Vorovum minor", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) Val(erius) Rufus vet(eranus) ex vi\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for the veteran Valerius Rufus"}, {"coords": [43.2425, 24.036], "id": 303, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/303", "long_id": "MPL00303", "place": "Reselets", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) [Resta,] viator, et [hoc (?) l]ege\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele set up by P. Aelius Firmus"}, {"coords": [43.35, 24.1333], "id": 306, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/306", "long_id": "MPL00306", "place": "Koynare", "text": "[D(is) M(anibus)]. Viator qui trans-[is, r]est(a),\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele set up by Maximus"}, {"coords": [43.35, 25.5], "id": 342, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/342", "long_id": "MPL00342", "place": "Obedinenie", "text": "D(is) M(anibus). Si modo sunt Ma-nes, sentiant\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary stele of L. Spurennius Rufus"}, {"coords": [43.525, 26.5231], "id": 343, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/343", "long_id": "MPL00343", "place": "Abrittus", "text": "------ [---]yir[---] ann[---] [---]NITPIREO tetr\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription from Abrittus"}, {"coords": [43.525, 26.5231], "id": 345, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/345", "long_id": "MPL00345", "place": "Abrittus", "text": "Romulianus p(rae)p(ositus) eqq(uitum) Dalm(atarum)\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://lupa.at/img/20851-2.jpg", "title": "Funerary stele of Romula, daughter of Romulianus and Flavia Maxima"}, {"coords": [43.1833, 26.8667], "id": 346, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/346", "long_id": "MPL00346", "place": "Veliki Preslav", "text": "------ -[---]niam primus [---] [---] hanc macu[l]a\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fragmentary verse inscription from Veliki Preslav"}, {"coords": [42.7042, 23.7711], "id": 830, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/830", "long_id": "MPL00830", "place": "Gorna Malina", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) Hic ego ia-cio (sic) infelix no-m\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Gorna Malina (Thracia) - HD014687"}, {"coords": [42.1893, 25.5538], "id": 1038, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1038", "long_id": "MPL01038", "place": "Pizus", "text": "\u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03b8\u1fc6\u03b9 \u03c4\u1f7b\u03c7\u03b7\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03a0\u03b1\u03b9\u1f70\u03bd \u03a0\u03b9\u03b6\u03b7\u03bd\u03b5 \u1fec\u03bf\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7\u03c4\u1f71\u03bb\u03ba\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u1f71\u03c4\u03c9\u03c1 \u1f10\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Votive inscription from Pizus \u2013 \u010cirpan (Thracia) - HD065152"}]

Object Details

Object Type	slab
Material	marble
State of Preservation	fragmentary (only partially adjoining fragments)
Dimensions	width: unknown height: unknown depth: unknown
Letter Size in cm (min)	0.7
Letter Size in cm (max)	1.2
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence Prose + Verse
Prose Verse Distinction
No distinction
Scriptio Continua in verse part no
Abbreviations in verse part no
Verse Line Correspondence No

Prose Verse Presence	Prose + Verse
Prose Verse Distinction	No distinction
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	No

Text

Function	funerary inscription
Language(s)	Latin
Verse Type(s)	Dactylic hexameter Dactylic pentameter
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

SISTEVIATORITERANIMVM[]LCHRO
ETLEGEQVAMDVRESITMIHIV[]ATAIPSVM
MARGEBAMFLORENTICAROM[]ITOINXIIII
5ANNVMMORSMIHISAEVAFVIT[]ISCEPTARVNT
FATANEPIAESSEPATRINECMAT[---]TEMRE
PIEFAEMINECASTEPROPIETA[]IMAS
SATIAVIFATASVPERBANOMINE[---]
RESTT[]BARQVINVNCQVAMSC[]
10ABIMPIAFATADISCEPTATADIEVTN[]
MARITOCRVDELISTHALAMOSPOSTMOR[]
RELIQVITEQVEROGCOMISDOLEATIBIPVLCH[]
QVODMEAVIRGINITASMORT[]ISOMN[]
ISQVETVASCINERESAVREATERR[]
15EGONVNCMONEOGENITORE[]
RVMPERENEMO[]

D(is) M(anibus).

Siste viator iter animum[que intende sepu]lc{h}ro
et lege quam dure sit mihi v[ita d]ataipsum
margebam Florenti caro m[ar]ito in XIIII
5annum mors mihi saeva fuit [sic d]isceptarunt
fata ne pia esse(m) patri nec mat[ri ---]TEMRE
pi<a>e f{a}emin<a>e cast<a>e pro pieta[te lacr]imas
satiavi fata superba nomine [---]
rest{t}[o voca]bar qui nuncquam sc[eleratus erat quoad]
10ab impia fata disceptata die ut n[imis essem blanda]
marito crudelis thalamos post mor[bi accessum]
reliqui teque rog(o) comis dolea(t) tibi pulch[ra futura]
quod mea virginitas mort[al]i somn[o sepulta est]
isque tuas cineres aurea terr[a tegat vosque]
15ego nunc moneo genitore[s fatorum legem]
rumpere nemo [potest].

D(is) M(anibus).

Siste viator iter animum[que intende sepu]lc{h}ro
et lege quam dure sit mihi v[ita d]ata
ipsum margebam Florenti caro m[ar]ito
in XIIII annum mors mihi saeva fuit
[sic d]isceptarunt fata ne pia esse(m) patri
nec mat[ri ---]TEMRE pi<a>e f{a}emin<a>e cast<a>e
pro pieta[te lacr]imas satiavi fata superba
nomine [---] rest{t}[o voca]bar
qui nuncquam sc[eleratus erat quoad] ab impia fata
disceptata die ut n[imis essem blanda] marito
crudelis thalamos post mor[bi accessum] reliqui
teque rog(o) comis dolea(t) tibi pulch[ra futura]
quod mea virginitas mort[al]i somn[o sepulta est]
isque tuas cineres aurea terr[a tegat vosque]
ego nunc moneo genitore[s fatorum legem]
rumpere nemo [potest].

Apparatus

l.4 margebam orig., reg. mergebam

Text follow Cenati and González Berdús

Main Translation

Translation	To the Spirits of the Departed. Stop your walking, passer-by, turn your soul to my grave and read how cruel was the life that I was given. I withered before the eyes of my dear husband Florens and died a horrible death at the age of fourteen. So the fates decided that I should never get to be pious to my father nor to my mother (...) instead of this gesture of pity I have satisfied the proud destiny with tears. I was called ..., who was never unhappy until the day chosen by the evil fate for me to be too pleasing for my husband, when I died from the cruel bed after an attack of illness. And I ask you, my companion, to be sorry that my virginity, which was about to become beautiful, now lies buried by the sleep of death, and may this (viz. the sleep of death) cover your ashes with golden soil. And to you, my parents, I now remind you: no one can break the law of destiny.
Citation	Cenati, González Berdús

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

Name Florens
Gender Male
Role Dedicator
Gender Female
Age Range Subadult (13–20) [expression: Non-canonical]
Role Dedicatee

Name	Florens
Gender	Male
Role	Dedicator

Gender	Female
Age Range	Subadult (13–20) [expression: Non-canonical]
Role	Dedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	201 AD
Date (To)	330 AD
Date (Criteria)

Bibliography

AE 1916, 00122
ILBulg 00248
CLEThr 00001
P. Cugusi, Note su alcuni casi di doppioni epigrafici, Epigraphica 70 (2008), 251-252 - AE 2009 🔗 link
AE 2009, 01201
HD026220 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link
C. Cenati, V. González Berdús, Latin verse inscriptions from the Limes of Moesia inferior, Studia Academica Šumenensia 10 (2023), 138-139, T21. 🔗 link

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Editing History

Created	2026-08-17, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status	Complete
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Revisions

by Chiara Cenati
at 2023-03-30 13:24
by Chiara Cenati
at 2023-03-30 13:29
by Chiara Cenati
at 2023-03-30 14:59
by Alexander Gangoly
at 2023-07-21 08:14
by Anna Pokorny
at 2026-01-15 12:11
by Anna Pokorny
at 2026-01-20 10:52
by Chiara Cenati
at 2026-01-20 17:21
by Chiara Cenati
at 2026-01-20 17:21
by Chiara Cenati
at 2026-01-20 17:23
by Anna Martelli
at 2026-08-17 13:06

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