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Identification

Reference as: MPL00603
Title Funerary inscription for Rusticelia Cytheris
Trismegistos-No. 587822

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 slab
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 PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    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

RVSTICELIAMLCYTHERIS
DEBITVMREDDIDITXKSEPTMALVGINENSEETBLAESOCOS

QVANDOCVMQVELEVISTELLVSMEACONTEGETOSSA
INCISVMETDVRONOMINEERITLAPIDE
5QVODSIFORTETIBIFVERITFATORVMCVRAMEORVM
NEGRAVESITTVMVLVMVISERESAEPEMEVM
ETQVICVMQVETVISVMORLABETVROCELLIS
PROTINVSINDEMEOSDEFLVETINCINERES
QVIDLACRVMISOPVSESTRVSTICELICARISSIME
10CONIVNXEXTINCTOSCINERESSOLLICITAREMEOS

VNADOMVSCVNCTISNECFVGIENDAVIRIS
VTQVAEVOLVITEMPORETEMPVSHABET

NONDVMBISVICENOSANNOSCOMPLEVERATANNVS
SVPREMVMPARCAESORTEDEDEREMIHI
Rusticelia M(arci) l(iberta) Cytheris
debitum reddidit X K(alendas) Sept(embres) Maluginense et Blaeso co(n)s(ulibus).

Quandocumque levis tellus mea conteget ossa
incisum et duro nomine erit lapide,
5quod si forte tibi fuerit fatorum cura meorum,
ne grave sit tumulum visere saepe meum.
Et quicumque tuis umor labetur ocellis,
protinus inde meos defluet in cineres.
Quid lacrumis opus est, Rusticeli carissime
10coniunx, extinctos cineres sollicitare meos

Una domus cunctis nec fugienda viris,
ut quae volui tempore tempus habet.

Nondum bis vicenos annos compleverat annus,
supremum Parcae sorte dedere mihi.
Rusticelia M(arci) l(iberta) Cytheris debitum reddidit X K(alendas) Sept(embres) Maluginense et Blaeso co(n)s(ulibus).

Quandocumque levis tellus mea conteget ossa
incisum et duro nomine erit lapide,
quod si forte tibi fuerit fatorum cura meorum,
ne grave sit tumulum visere saepe meum.
Et quicumque tuis umor labetur ocellis,
protinus inde meos defluet in cineres.
Quid lacrumis opus est, Rusticeli carissime coniunx,
extinctos cineres sollicitare meos

Una domus cunctis nec fugienda viris,
ut quae volui tempore tempus habet.

Nondum bis vicenos annos compleverat annus,
supremum Parcae sorte dedere mihi.
Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. nomine
l.9 reg., orig. lacrumis
l.13 reg., orig. vicenos

Text follows CIL.
l. 8: defluat
l. 9: Rusticelli
l. 12: uti

Main Translation

Translation Rusticelia Cytheris, freedwoman of Marcus, returned what she owed on the 23rd of August
under the consulship of Maluginensis and Blaesus.
As soon as light soil will cover my bones and my name will be cut into the hard rock, if you
happened to care at all, by any chance, for my fate, may it not be a bother to you to visit my tomb
often. And whatever fluid will drop from your eyes, it will flow further down from there into my
ashes.
What need is there for tears to disturb my cold ashes, Rusticelius, my dearest husband? There
is one home that no man may escape. Time gave me in (or: over) time whatever I wanted.
This year had not yet completed twice twenty years, when the Fates assigned me
my final one.
Citation Kruschwitz 2020

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameRusticelia Cytheris
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60) [expression: Non-canonical]
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 10 AD
Date (To) 10 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • prosopography

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-11, by Alexander Gangoly
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:02:42, ID there: EDR185012
Revisions
  1. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-12-07 10:02
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 11:09
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 11:21
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 11:24
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 12:11
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 12:14
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 12:15
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 12:19
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 12:21
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