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Identification

Reference as: MPL00420
Title A mosaic inscription from Cuicul
Trismegistos-No. 335172

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Cuicul
Find Context "La inscripción se desarrolla en la franja que bordeaba una piscina para bautismos, toda ella cubierta de mosaicos" (Gómez Pallarès 1993, 185).
Latitude 36.3177
Longitude 5.73668
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type mosaic
Material mosaic
State of Preservation fragmentary
Dimensions

width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique written with mosaic tiles
Religion Christian

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags
  • Animal / fish

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceVerse
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo, but follows metrical subdivisions

Text

Function building / dedicatory inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations


[]EMPVS
ERITOMNESIN
FONTE[]

[Gentes t]empus
erit omnes in
fonte [lavari].

[Gentes t]empus erit omnes in fonte [lavari].
Apparatus

Textus secundum ILAlg 02-03, 08281.
ll. 1-3: [Gentes t]empus erit omnes in fonte [renasci] Monceaux 1922, 406; Gómez Pallarés 1993, 185 (cfr. Mat. 28, 19); [Et cum t]empus erit, omnes in fonte [lavabo], aut [lavantur] Cugusi-Sblendorio 2014, 130.

Main Translation

Translation It will come the day in which all people will be sprinkled in the baptismal font.
Citation Mirko Tasso

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Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 301 AD
Date (To) 450 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology
  • formulae

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Editing History

Created 2026-03-11, by Mirko Tasso
Work Status Complete
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Revisions
  1. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-09-08 13:46
  2. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-09-08 14:01
  3. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-09-13 10:55
  4. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-09-13 11:00
  5. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-09-13 11:13
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-03-10 09:50
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-03-10 09:52
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-03-10 11:26
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-03-11 12:40
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