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Identification

Reference as: MPL00522
Title Funerary inscription for Claudia Pistes
Trismegistos-No. 579352

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, unknown (seen for the first time in Rome, Villa Giustiniani near Porta Flaminia)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani
Inventory number 1770
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type altar
Material marble
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 CorrespondenceYes

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

DIISMANIBVS
CLAVDIAEPISTES
PRIMVSCONIVGI
OPTVMAESANCTAE
5ETPIAEBENEMERITAE

NONAEQVOSPARCAESTATVISTISSTAMINAVITAE

TAMBENECOMPOSITOSPOTVISTISSEDETENERE
AMISSAESTCONIVNXCVREGOETIPSEMOROR?

SIFELIXESSEMPISTEMEAVIVEREDEBVIT
10TRISTIACONTIGERVNQVIAMISSACONIVGEVIVO
NILESTTAMMISERVMQVAMTOTAMPERDEREVITAM
NECVITAENASCIDVRAPEREGISTISCRVDELIAPENSASORORES
RVPTAQVEDEFICIVNTINPRIMOMVNEREFVSI
ONIMISINIVSTAETERDENOSDAREMVNVSINANNOS

15
DECEPTVSGRAVIVSFATVMSICPRESSITEGESTAS
DVMVITAMTVLEROPRIMVSPISTESLVGEACONIVGIVM
Diis Manibus
Claudiae Pistes.
Primus coniugi
optumae sanctae
5et piae bene meritae.

Non aequos, Parcae, statuistis stamina vitae.

Tam bene compositos potuistis sede tenere.
Amissa est coniunx, cur ego et ipse moror?

Si felix essem, Piste mea vivere debuit.
10Tristia contigerun(t) qui amissa coniuge vivo.
Nil est tam miserum, quam totam perdere vitam
nec vitae nasci. Dura peregistis crudelia pensa, sorores,
ruptaque deficiunt in primo munere fusi.
O nimis iniustae, ter denos dare munus in annos.

15
Deceptus gravius fatum sic pressit egestas.
Dum vitam tulero, Primus Pistes lugea(m) coniugium.
Diis Manibus Claudiae Pistes. Primus coniugi optumae sanctae et piae bene meritae.

Non aequos, Parcae, statuistis stamina vitae.

Tam bene compositos potuistis sede tenere.
Amissa est coniunx, cur ego et ipse moror?

Si felix essem, Piste mea vivere debuit.
Tristia contigerun(t) qui amissa coniuge vivo.
Nil est tam miserum, quam totam perdere vitam nec vitae nasci.
Dura peregistis crudelia pensa, sorores,
ruptaque deficiunt in primo munere fusi.
O nimis iniustae, ter denos dare munus in annos.

Deceptus gravius fatum sic pressit egestas.
Dum vitam tulero, Primus Pistes lugea(m) coniugium.
Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. optumae
l.11 reg., orig. Nil

Text follows CIL, picture checked by V. González in 2021.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameClaudia Pistes
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

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

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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 2023-12-07T09:55:59, ID there: EDR181195
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 09:55
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 14:23
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 14:26
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 14:27
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-14 16:58
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-14 17:01
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-14 17:05
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