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Identification

Reference as: MPL00485
Title Funerary inscription for Cn. Pompeius Olympicus
Trismegistos-No. 572463

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Rome, between Via Appia and Via Latina (seen in 1877 in Rome, vigna Codini)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Lost
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation
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 CorrespondenceNo

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

DISMANIBVSSACRVM

HICTVMVLVSFRVCTISACEREST
QVEMLAEDERENOLIHOSPES:
SICVOTISIPSEFRVARETVIS
5LEGISTIMISERATVSABIS
FELIXTIBIVITASITPRECOR
ATQVEOBITOSIDTIBITERRALEVIS

CNPOMPEIVSOLYMPICVSVIVSFECITSIBIETGEGANIAEPRIMA[]
FELICITATIFFRVCTOLDEQVIBVSDOLVITNIHILNISIMORTE[]
Dis Manibus sacrum.

Hic tumulus Fructi sacer est,
quem laedere noli, hospes:
sic votis ipse fruare tuis.
5Legisti, miseratus abis
Felix tibi vita sit, precor,
atque obito sid tibi terra levis.

Cn(aeus) Pompeius Olympicus vius fecit sibi et Geganiae Prima[e coni(ugi)],
Felicitati f(iliae), Fructo l(iberto), de quibus doluit nihil nisi morte[m].
Dis Manibus sacrum.

Hic tumulus Fructi sacer est, quem laedere noli,
hospes: sic votis ipse fruare tuis.
Legisti, miseratus abis Felix tibi vita
sit, precor, atque obito sid tibi terra levis.
Cn(aeus) Pompeius Olympicus vius fecit sibi et Geganiae Prima[e coni(ugi)],

Felicitati f(iliae), Fructo l(iberto), de quibus doluit nihil nisi morte[m].
Apparatus

l.7 reg., orig. sid
l.8 reg., orig. vius

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

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameCn. Pompeius Olympicus
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusRoman citizen
    RoleDedicator
  • NameGegania Prima
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicator
  • NameFelicitas
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameFructus
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee

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Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 100 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • names
  • formulae

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Editing History

Created 2025-04-17, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:52:56, ID there: EDR180432
Revisions
  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2023-12-07 09:52
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 12:35
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 12:47
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 12:52
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 12:54
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-04-16 12:55
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-17 11:09
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