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Identification

Reference as: MPL00502
Title Funerary inscription for Publius Aelius Pius
Trismegistos-No. 575408

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Rome, Forum of Trajan, ambulatory of the hemicycle
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Roma, via Magnanapoli 11
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material marble
State of Preservation
Dimensions

width: 32.0 cm

height: 43.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.7
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate verses - Vacat

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Elegiac couplet
  • iambo-trochaic rhythm
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

PAELIVSPIVS
HICSITVSEST

COMPLENTEMMENSESSEXTAEPERCORNVALVNAE
MORTEDATVMTVMVLOPLVRIMAFLETEPIVM
5PROSCELVSINFANDVMDETESTANDVMQLEGENTI
MORTEQVODHEVRAPITVRPARVVLVSISTEPVER
QVIMIRVMDICTVPOSSETIAMNOSSEPARENTIS
QVIQDIONIGENAPVLCHRIORVSQFVIT
SETNONHICMANISNECTEMPLAACHERVSIAVISI[]
10ADCAELIQVONIAMTOLLITVRISTEPIVS[---]

AVRAEETVLEREPARVOLVM[---]
ACCESSITASTRIST[---]

PIAM[---]
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P(ublius) Aelius Pius
hic situs est.

Complentem menses sextae per cornua lunae
morte datum tumulo plurima flete Pium.
5Pro scelus infandum detestandumq(ue) legenti,
morte quod heu rapitur parvulus iste puer,
qui mirum dictu posset iam nosse parentis
quiq(ue) dionigená pulchrior usq(ue) fuit.
Set non hic manis nec templa Acherusia visi[t],
10ad caeli quoniam tollitur iste pius [---]

Aurae etulere parvolum [---]
accessit astris t[---]

Pia m[ater ---]
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P(ublius) Aelius Pius hic situs est.

Complentem menses sextae per cornua lunae
morte datum tumulo plurima flete Pium.
Pro scelus infandum detestandumq(ue) legenti,
morte quod heu rapitur parvulus iste puer,
qui mirum dictu posset iam nosse parentis
quiq(ue) dionigená pulchrior usq(ue) fuit.
Set non hic manis nec templa Acherusia visi[t],
ad caeli quoniam tollitur iste pius [---]

Aurae etulere parvolum [---]
accessit astris t[---]
Pia m[ater ---]
Apparatus

l.9 reg., orig. Set

Text follows CIL, picture checked by C. Cenati in 2022.
l. 10: Achirusa (1); Achirus(i)a (Cholodniak)
l. 11: Aurae etulere parvolum [sublimiter] (CIL) (Cholodniak); Aurae etulere parvolum [supere Pium] (CLE)
l. 12: accessit astris, T[artari fugit domos] (CIL) (Cholodniak)
l. 13: Pia m[ater ossa condit hic nati Pii] (CLE)

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Prosopographical Information

  • NamePublius Aelius Pius
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 117 AD
Date (To) 160 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • names
  • formulae

Bibliography

Images

  • EDCS-17200492

Editing History

Created 2025-05-19, by Chiara Cenati
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:54:21, ID there: EDR184726
Revisions
  1. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2023-12-07 09:54
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:09
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:15
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:18
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:41
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:42
  7. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:44
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:46
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:48
  10. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:49
  11. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:51
  12. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-05 15:54
  13. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-19 10:40
  14. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-19 13:49
  15. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-19 13:53
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