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Identification

Reference as: MPL00614
Title Funerary inscription for Suetrius Hermes
Trismegistos-No. 588914

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, unknown (first seen in Rome, vineyard Cicciaporci (?) at the foot of the Aventine)
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
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 CorrespondenceNo, but follows metrical subdivisions

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

DM

SVETRIVSHERMESHICSITVS
ESTCVITERTIACONIVNX
ARAMCONSTITVITDIGNO
5MERITOQVEMARITO
CVMQVOCONCORDEMVI
TAMMVLTOSQVEPERANNOS
VIXITETTENEROCASVSBTA
MARITOEST
10DECVIVSFAMAMVLTICVM
LAVDELOCVNTVR
QVODFVERITCVLTORDOMINI
RERVMQVEETAMATORTVQVI
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D(is) M(anibus).

Suetrius Hermes hic situs
est cui Tertia coniunx
aram constituit digno
5meritoque marito,
cum quo concordem vi-
tam multosque per annos
vixit et tenero casu SBTA
marito est.
10De cuius fama multi cum
laude locuntur,
quod fuerit cultor domini
rerumque et amator. Tu qui
------
D(is) M(anibus).

Suetrius Hermes hic situs est cui Tertia coniunx
aram constituit digno meritoque marito,
cum quo concordem vi|tam multosque per annos
vixit et tenero casu SBTA marito est.
De cuius fama multi cum laude locuntur,
quod fuerit cultor domini rerumque et amator.
Tu qui ------
Apparatus

Text follows CIL
l. 6-7: concordiam vitam (CIL)
l. 8: Fabretti proposed the omitted part (CIL); s(u)bt(ract)a (Cholodniak); casu(s) solata (CLE)
l. 14-16: praeteriens versus perlegeris istos, optato, placide cineres hi atque ossa quiescant (Cholodniak).

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameSuetrius Hermes
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameTertia
    GenderFemale
    RoleDedicator

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 51 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • formulae
  • language

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-11, by Alexander Gangoly
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:03:38, ID there: EDR185026
Revisions
  1. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2023-12-07 10:03
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 15:50
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 15:53
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 15:54
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-11 15:56
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-11 16:46
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