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Identification

Reference as: MPL00487
Title Funerary inscription for Caius Vettius Capitolinus
Trismegistos-No. 572815

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, Porta Maggiore, sepolcri I-L
Latitude 41.8914
Longitude 12.5152
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano, inv. 34152
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 43.5 cm

height: 29.0 cm

depth: 3.5 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.8
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.3
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

DM
CVETTIOCAPITOLINOFILIOPIENTIS
SIMOPLOTIACAPITOLINAMATERIN
FELICISSIMAFECITVIXANNISXIII
5QVIDIENATALISVOHORAQVANATVS
ESTOBIIT
TANCITOPICTORACVSTY
GIADELATVSADVMBRAS
QVAMPVERINGENIONOTVS
INARTESVAQVOTSIFATAVELINTALIAPROSPIRITO
10VITAMHOCMATERTITVLOMALVITANTELEGI

SIBIEETSSVISPOSTERISQVEEORVM
D(is) M(anibus).
C(aio) Vettio Capitolino filio pientis-
simo Plotia Capitolina mater ìn-
felicissima fecit, vix(it) annis XIII.
5Qui die natali suo hora qua natus
est obiìt.
Tan cito pictor acu Sty-
gia(s) delatus ad umbras,
quam puer ingenio notus
in arte sua. Quot si fata velint alia(m) pro spirito
10vitam, hoc mater titulo maluit ante legi.

Sibi {e} et {s} suis posterisque eorum.
D(is) M(anibus).
C(aio) Vettio Capitolino filio pientis-
simo Plotia Capitolina mater ìn-
felicissima fecit, vix(it) annis XIII.
5Qui die natali suo hora qua natus
est obiìt.

Tan cito pictor acu Sty|gia(s) delatus ad umbras,
    | quam puer ingenio notus | in arte sua.
Quot si fata velint alia(m) pro spirito | (10) vitam,
   hoc mater titulo maluit ante legi.

Sibi {e} et {s} suis posterisque eorum.
Apparatus

l.6 reg., orig. Tan
l.9 reg., orig. spirito

Text follows CIL. Checked on picture by Cenati 2021.

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Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 51 AD
Date (To) 130 AD
Date (Criteria)

Bibliography

Images

  • Funerary inscription for Caius Vettius Capitolinus

    Funerary inscription for Caius Vettius Capitolinus

    https://cil.bbaw.de/ace/id/KO0008438

Editing History

Created 2025-03-31, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:53:06, ID there: EDR180437
Revisions
  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2023-12-07 09:53
  2. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 08:31
  3. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 08:49
  4. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 08:51
  5. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 08:52
  6. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 08:57
  7. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 09:01
  8. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 09:02
  9. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 09:07
  10. by Jonas Philipp Morrissey
    at 2024-05-11 09:30
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-10-31 11:45
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-10-31 11:48
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