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Identification

Reference as: MPL00594
Title Funerary inscription for Primeus
Trismegistos-No. 587243

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
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Longitude 0.0
Current Location unknown
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Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type
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 PresenceCarmen
    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


HICSITVSESTPRIMEVSQVIVI
XITIVCVNDOSEPERSILBAE
STETITOFFICIO

Hic situs est Primeus qui vi-
xit iucundo se(m)per silbae
stetit officio.

Hic situs est Primeus
qui vi|xit iucundo se(m)per
silbae stetit officio.
Apparatus

l.2 reg., orig. silbae

Text follows CLE, drawing checked by M. Tasso in 2022.

l. 1: primaevus, CLE
l. 2-3: iucunde se(m)per praestitit officio ("he always performed his duty cheerfully"), Henzen; according to Mommsen the deceased was a forest guard (saltuarius).

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Prosopographical Information

  • NamePrimeus
    GenderMale
    ProfessionOther profession
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

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

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Editing History

Created 2025-07-16, by Mirko Tasso
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:01:55, ID there: EDR184155
Revisions
  1. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-12-07 10:01
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-16 14:22
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-16 14:23
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-07-16 14:24
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-07-16 15:14
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