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Identification

Reference as: MPL00493
Title Funerary inscription for Lucius Vettius Nymphius
Trismegistos-No. 574287

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Rome, unknown (first seen in the collection of Lelio Pasqualini)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Lost
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type
Material unknown
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 CorrespondenceNo, but follows metrical subdivisions

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

LVETTIVSNYMPHIVS
AVRIFEXVAXVII

ETTETERRAPRECORLEVITER
SVPEROSSARESIDAS
5SENTIATVTPIETASPRAEMIA
QVAEMERVIT
ETQVICVMQVESVISSINCERE
PRAESTATHONOREM
FELICEMCVRSVMPERFERAT
10ADSVPEROS
L(ucius) Vettius Nymphius,
aurifex, v(ixit) a(nnis) XVII.

Et te, Terra, precor leviter
super ossa residas,
5sentiat ut pietas praemia
quae meruit,
et quicumque suis sincere
praestat honorem,
felicem cursum perferat
10ad superos.
L(ucius) Vettius Nymphius, aurifex, v(ixit) a(nnis) XVII.

Et te, Terra, precor leviter super ossa residas,
sentiat ut pietas praemia quae meruit,
et quicumque suis sincere praestat honorem,
felicem cursum perferat ad superos.
Apparatus

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

Main Translation

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameLucius Vettius Nymphius
    GenderMale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20) [expression: Canonical]
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

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

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Editing History

Created 2025-05-07, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:53:35, ID there: EDR180510
Revisions
  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2023-12-07 09:53
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 09:38
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 09:46
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 09:47
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 09:49
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-07 13:06
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