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Inscriptions: Funerary inscription for Gaius Cornelius Tyrannus

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Identification

Reference as: MPL00526
Title Funerary inscription for Gaius Cornelius Tyrannus
Trismegistos-No. 580011

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, unknown
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details unknown/lost
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 + subscriptum
    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

CCORNELIVSTYRANNVS
HESVAXIII

ETTETERRAPRECORLEVITER
SVPEROSSARESIDASSENTIAT
5VTPIETASPRAEMIAQVAEMERVIT

APBMF
C(aius) Cornelius Tyrannus
h(ic) e(st) s(itus), v(ixit) a(nnis) XIII;

et te, terra, precor leviter
super ossa residas, sentiat
5ut pietas praemia quae meruit.

A(- - -) P(- - -) b(ene) m(erenti) f(ecit).
C(aius) Cornelius Tyrannus h(ic) e(st) s(itus), v(ixit) a(nnis) XIII;

et te, terra, precor leviter
super ossa residas, sentiat
ut pietas praemia quae meruit.
A(- - -) P(- - -) b(ene) m(erenti) f(ecit).
Apparatus

Text follows CIL, picture checked by González in 2021.
l. 6: A(---) P(---) nomen and cognomen of a woman. A(lumno) p(atronus) proposed by González.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameGaius Cornelius Tyrannus
    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)
  • 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 2023-12-07T09:56:19, ID there: EDR181199
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 09:56
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 14:59
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 15:04
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-14 15:05
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-14 17:19
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-14 17:21
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