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Inscriptions: Funerary inscription from Marcus Caerellius Smaragdianus to his slave

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Reference as: MPL00529
Title Funerary inscription from Marcus Caerellius Smaragdianus to his slave
Trismegistos-No. 580507

Object

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Current Location Details Unknown/ Lost
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Object Details

Object Type altar
Material
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 incised
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 CorrespondenceNo

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

DISMANIB
DOMESTICOQVIVIXITANNXVI

HOCMIHINOSTERERVSSACRAVIT
INANESEPVLCRVMVILLAETECTASVAE
5PROPTERVTASPICEREMVTQVESVIS
MANIBVSFLORESMIHIVINAQVE
SAEPEFVNDERETETLACRIMAMQVOD
MIHIPLVRISERITNOSTROSNAMCINERES
POLLENTIASAEVASVBEGITESTETIBI
10TVMVLVSNOMENETARAMIHINEC
TAMENAVTILLISVPT̂ERCRVDELIABVSTA
AVTISTASSEDESNOSTRASVBIT
ANIMA:SEDPETATASVRIOS
PETATILLELICEBITHIBEROSPER
15MAREPERTERRASSVBSEQVITVRDOMINVM

MCAERELLIVS
SMARAGDIANVSFECIT
Dìs Manib(us).
Domestico qui vixit ann(is) XVI.

Hoc mihi noster erus sacravit
inane sepulcrum, villae tecta suae
5 propter ut aspicerem, utque suis
manibus flores mihi vinaque
saepe funderet et lacrimam, quod
mihi pluris erit. Nostros nam cineres
Pollentia saeva subegit, est et ibi
10 tumulus, nomen et ara mihi. Nec
tamen aut illi supt̂er crudelia busta
aut istas sedes nostra subit
anima: Sed petat Asurios,
petat ille licebit Hiberos, per
15 mare, per terras subsequitur dominum.

M(arcus) Caerellius
Smaragdianus fecit.
Dìs Manib(us). Domestico qui vixit ann(is) XVI.

Hoc mihi noster erus sacravit inane sepulcrum,
villae tecta suae propter ut aspicerem,
utque suis manibus flores mihi vinaque saepe
funderet et lacrimam, quod mihi pluris erit.
Nostros nam cineres Pollentia saeva subegit,
est et ibi tumulus, nomen et ara mihi.
Nec tamen aut illi supt̂er crudelia busta
aut istas sedes nostra subit anima:
Sed petat Asurios, petat ille licebit Hiberos,
per mare, per terras subsequitur dominum.
M(arcus) Caerellius Smaragdianus fecit.
Apparatus

Text follows CIL.

Main Translation

Translation Sacred to the Spirits of the Departed of Domesticus, who lived 16 years. My master has dedicated to me this empty burial, so I could have a look of the roofs of his villa and also so he is able to often scatter flowers and wine with his own hands in my honour, and tears as well, which for me would be the most important. For cruel Pollentia has put my ashes down and there I have a monument, an inscription and an altar, but for him my soul does not lay under merciless pyres or under this monument: whether he travels to Assyria, whether he travels to Hiberia, by sea of by land, it follows its master. Marcus Caerellius Smaragdianus has (this monument) made.
Citation Victoria González Berdús

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameMarcus Caerellius Smaragdianus
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator
  • GenderMale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
    Legal StatusSlave
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

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

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Editing History

Created 2025-01-24, by Victoria González Berdús
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:56:33, ID there: EDR181202
Revisions
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    at 2023-12-07 09:56
  2. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-05-29 15:07
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