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Identification

Reference as: MPL00520
Title Funerary inscription for Epios and Cinyra
Trismegistos-No. 578732

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, in a vineyard between S. Maria Maggiore and S. Giovanni in Laterano
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details unknown/lost
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material unknown
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 12.7 cm

height: 5.08 cm

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 CorrespondenceYes

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

CINVRAMATERSIBIET
FILIIS

HOCEPIOSTVMVLOCINIRESTCVMFRATRESEPVLTVS
ANTESVOSANNOSQVOSTEGITATRACINIS
5HISTVMVLVMPARVOMMATERCVMCARMINEFECIT
INGENIOQVORVMTERRAMOPTATELEVEM
Cinura mater sibi et
filiis.

Hoc Epios tumulo Cinir(a) est cum fratre sepultus
ante suos annos quos tegit atra cinis.
5His tumulum parvom mater cum carmine fecit
ingenio. Quorum terram optate levem.
Cinura mater sibi et filiis.

Hoc Epios tumulo Cinir(a) est cum fratre sepultus
ante suos annos quos tegit atra cinis.
His tumulum parvom mater cum carmine fecit
ingenio. Quorum terram optate levem.
Apparatus

l.1 reg., orig. Cinura
l.3 reg., orig. Cinira
l.5 reg., orig. parvom

Text follows CIL, picture checked by González in 2021.
l. 3: Cinipest (CLE)

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameEpios
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameCinyra
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 50 BC
Date (To) 100 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • language
  • names

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-14, by Victoria González Berdús
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:55:50, ID there: EDR181193
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 09:55
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 13:32
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 13:42
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 13:44
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 13:44
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-14 16:39
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