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Identification

Reference as: MPL00480
Title Funerary inscription for C. Clodius Felix
Trismegistos-No. 971609

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context seen for the first time in Rome, palazzo Campana near Piazza del Popolo
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details unknown/ lost
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

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

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
  • Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

DM
CCLODIVSFELIX

HICEGOMVRINVSPRAECOFELIXCVITALESAMICI

COMPLERVNTANIMOSVTPOSTMENOMEMHABEREM
5LVCIVSETCLAVDIAQVODSVNTMEDIGNATIMVNEREPERPETVO

VOSPRECORHOCSVPERIVTVITAMPOSTMESERVETISAMICIS

ETPOSSINTNOSTRISBACCHVMMISCEREFAVILLIS
FLORIBVSVTSPARGANTSAEPIVSVMBRALEVEM
D(is) M(anibus).
C(aius) Clodius Felix.

Hic ego Murinus praecofelix, cui tales amici

complerunt animos ut post me nomem haberem,
5Lucius et Claudia, quod sunt me dignati munere perpetuo.

Vos precor hoc, superi, ut vitampost me servetis amicis

et possint nostris Bacchum miscere favillis,
floribus ut spargant saepius umbra(m) levem.
D(is) M(anibus). C(aius) Clodius Felix.

Hic ego Murinus praecofelix, cui tales amici

complerunt animos ut post me nomem haberem,
Lucius et Claudia, quod sunt me dignati munere perpetuo.

Vos precor hoc, superi, ut vitampost me servetis amicis

et possint nostris Bacchum miscere favillis,
floribus ut spargant saepius umbra(m) levem.
Apparatus

l.3 reg., orig. Murinus
l.4 reg., orig. nomem

Text follows CIL, picture checked by C. Cenati in 2021.

The words felix (l. 3), Lucius et Claudia (l. 5), post me (l. 6) are extrametrical.
The dating proposed here refers to the readjustment phase of the text for C. Clodius Felix. In contrast, the original inscription for Murinus must have been older.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameC. Clodius Felix
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameLucius
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator
  • NameClaudia
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicator
  • NameMurinus
    GenderMale

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 101 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • formulae
  • names

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Editing History

Created 2025-04-17, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:52:33, ID there: EDR180353
Revisions
  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2023-12-07 09:52
  2. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-11 08:23
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 09:04
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 09:17
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 09:19
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 09:38
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 09:41
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 09:45
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-16 09:52
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-16 09:54
  11. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 12:03
  12. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 12:04
  13. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-17 10:44
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