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Reference as: MPL00479
Title Dedication for Hercules Invictus and the Genius Populi Romani
Trismegistos-No. 569739

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, via Appia, vigna Vidaschi, out of Porta S. Sebastiano
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Lost
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Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type altar
Material marble
State of Preservation
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width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

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

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Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen + subscriptum
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno

Text

Function dedication / votive inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Iambic senarius
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations


HERCVLES
[]NVICTESAN
[]TESILVANINE
POSHICADVE
5NISTI:NEQVID
HICFIATMAL[]!
GPRF

Hercules
[I]nvicte, san-
[c]te Silvani ne-
pos, hic adve-
5nisti: ne quid
hic fiat mal[i]!
G(enio) p(opuli) R(omani) f(eliciter).

Hercules | [I]nvicte, san|[c]te Silvani ne|pos,
hic adve|(5)nisti: ne quid | hic fiat mal[i]!
G(enio) p(opuli) R(omani) f(eliciter).
Apparatus

Text follows CIL. Checked on photo by C. Cenati, 2022.

Main Translation

Translation Unconquered Hercules, saintly grandson of Silvanus, you have come here lest something bad happens here. To the Genius of the Roman people.
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    Dedication for Hercules Invictus and the Genius Populi Romani

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Editing History

Created 2025-03-31, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:52:28, ID there: EDR184342
Revisions
  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2023-12-07 09:52
  2. by Peter Kruschwitz
    at 2024-03-01 12:53
  3. by Peter Kruschwitz
    at 2024-03-01 12:55
  4. by Peter Kruschwitz
    at 2024-03-01 12:57
  5. by Peter Kruschwitz
    at 2024-03-01 12:59
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-03-01 17:08
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