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Identification

Reference as: MPL00591
Title Funerary inscription for Popillius
Trismegistos-No. 587124

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
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Longitude 0.0
Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Lapidaria
Inventory number 1C, 36, inv. 9073
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation
Dimensions

width: 18.0 cm

height: 11.0 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 CorrespondenceNo

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

[c 1 - 3]PILLIVSLAENA[]
[]CAMVSFILIOVAXV[---]

[]CINERESALIVSLOC[]
[]ABETOSSA:EFFIGIESV[]
5[]RASICCOLITVR
[c. 1 - 3 Po]pillius Laena[tis l(ibertus)]
[Plo]camus filio, v(ixit) a(nnis) XV[---].

[In terris] cineres alius loc[us, hic]
[h]abet ossa: effigies v[aga per]
5[side]ra sic colitur.
[c. 1 - 3 Po]pillius Laena[tis l(ibertus) Plo]camus filio, v(ixit) a(nnis) XV[---].

[In terris] cineres alius loc[us, hic h]abet ossa:
effigies v[aga per side]ra sic colitur.
Apparatus

Text follows CIL and CLE, picture checked by M. Tasso in 2022.

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Prosopographical Information

  • Name[-] Popillius Plocamus
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NamePopillius [---]
    GenderMale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20)
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 100 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • formulae
  • names

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Editing History

Created 2025-07-16, by Mirko Tasso
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:01:40, ID there: EDR184192
Revisions
  1. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-12-07 10:01
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-02 07:42
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-02 09:29
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-02 09:41
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-02 09:42
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-02 09:43
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-07-11 11:39
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-16 12:30
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-16 12:31
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-07-16 14:53
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-07-16 14:54
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