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Identification

Reference as: MPL00542
Title Funerary inscription for Fabiana Hediste
Trismegistos-No. 582436

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Between stadio palatino and via di S. Gregorio (once vigna Cavalieri)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Lapidaria
Inventory number 9371
Current Location Details 21, a terra
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type cippus
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 65.8 cm

height: 89.2 cm

depth: 29.6 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 2.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 3.2
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography Corona with flying erotes and portrait of the deceased in the centre
Decoration Tags
  • God / Erotes
  • Person / head

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To mark a pentameter in an elegiac couplet (indentation)

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


HEDISTESANIMOSIMVLETCOGNOMINEMATRIS
NATASACRVMTVMVLISHOCFABIANADICAT
SICSATISHICTITVLVSDIVIPERLONGACOLATVR
SAECVLAPROGENERISQVAESOVIRIQVEMANV

Hedistes animo simul et cognomine matris
nata sacrum tumulìs hoc Fabiana dicat
sic satis hic titulus dìvì per longa colatur
saecula pro generis quaeso virìque manu.

Hedistes animo simul et cognomine matris |
nata sacrum tumulìs hoc Fabiana dicat |
sic satis hic titulus dìvì per longa colatur |
saecula pro generis quaeso virìque manu.
Apparatus

Text follows the edition of CIL 06, 34119, differently CIL 06, 19174, CLE, Sanders 1960. Picture checked by Gangoly 2021.
l. 3 [corpor]is hic CLE, Sanders 1960.
l. 4 [tempor]a pro CIL 06, 19174, CLE, Sanders 1960.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameFabiana Hediste
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 151 AD
Date (To) 250 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • history
  • language
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2025-01-30, by Alexander Gangoly
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T09:57:37, ID there: EDR180856
Revisions
  1. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-12-07 09:57
  2. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-07 14:58
  3. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-07 14:59
  4. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-07 15:03
  5. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-07 15:09
  6. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-07 15:17
  7. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-07 15:18
  8. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-07 15:44
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-01-30 13:27
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