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Inscriptions: Funerary inscription for C. Acilianus Eros and Acilia Romana

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Identification

Reference as: MPL00500
Title Funerary inscription for C. Acilianus Eros and Acilia Romana
Trismegistos-No. 575175

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Rome, via Appia, Moroni vineyard, near Porta S. Sebastiano (in 1703)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Lapidaria
Inventory number 19, 38, inv. 7839
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type altar
Material marble
State of Preservation
Dimensions

width: 66.0 cm

height: 67.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.8
Letter Size in cm (max) 3.0
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 partyes
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

DM
CACILIEROTISET
ACILIAEROMANAE

.VAMVISINSCRIPTVMFERALICARMIN͡ESAXS
5SAEPELEGASNOSTRONILPVTOFLEBILIVS
[]STEGRADVMPARVAMQVEMORAMCONCEDEVIA
ASPICIESQVANTASLIQVERIMVSLACRIMAS
[]NAFORTEDIEDVPLICINOSPONDEREMATER
[]DIDITHEVSIMILESHEVMALEDISSIMILES
10[]VIDABISDENOSLACHESISCONCESSERATANN[]
[]ONDVMALIOPLENOQVODDEDERATRAPV[]
[]MINEACILIANVSQVONOMINENVNCSOROROP[]
[]IVATETAFATISSITPROCVLVSQVEMEIS
[---]ADVCMISEROQVODERIT[---]
D(is) M(anibus)
C(ai) Acili Erotis et
Aciliae Romanae.

Q̣uamvis inscriptum ferali carmin͡e saxs(um)
5saepe legas, nostro nil puto flebilius.
[Si]ste gradum parvamque moram concede via(tor)
aspicies quantas liquerimus lacrimas.
[U]na forte die duplici nos pondere mater
[e]didit heu similes, heu male dissimiles.
10[In]vida bis denos Lachesis concesserat ann[os]
[n]ondum alio pleno quod dederat rapu[it].
[No]mine Acilianus, quo nomine nunc soror op[tat]
[v]ivat et a fatis sit procul usque meis.
[---]aduc misero quod erit ṃịṣ[---]
D(is) M(anibus) C(ai) Acili Erotis et Aciliae Romanae.

Q̣uamvis inscriptum ferali carmin͡e saxs(um)
saepe legas, nostro nil puto flebilius.
[Si]ste gradum parvamque moram concede via(tor)
aspicies quantas liquerimus lacrimas.
[U]na forte die duplici nos pondere mater
[e]didit heu similes, heu male dissimiles.
[In]vida bis denos Lachesis concesserat ann[os]
[n]ondum alio pleno quod dederat rapu[it].
[No]mine Acilianus, quo nomine nunc soror op[tat]
[v]ivat et a fatis sit procul usque meis.
[---]aduc misero quod erit ṃịṣ[---]
Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. saxsum
l.5 reg., orig. nil

Text follows CIL, picture checked by C. Cenati in 2022.
l. 12: opt[o] (CLE)
l. 14: [illud] aduc (CLE)

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameC. Acilianus Eros
    GenderMale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20)
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameAcilia Romana
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20)
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

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

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Editing History

Created 2025-05-19, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:54:11, ID there: EDR184147
Revisions
  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2023-12-07 09:54
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 13:42
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 13:53
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 14:20
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 14:23
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 14:24
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-19 10:27
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-19 13:43
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-19 13:44
  10. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-19 13:44
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-19 13:51
  12. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-19 13:56
  13. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-19 13:56
  14. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-19 13:59
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