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Identification

Reference as: MPL00617
Title Funerary inscription for Turpilia Dionysia
Trismegistos-No. 589640

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, unknown (in 1727)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details York (UK), Castle Howard
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

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

TVRPILIAMLDIONYSIA
MTVRPILIVSM mulieris LEROS

AEDISAEDIFICATDIVESSAPIENS
MONVMENTVM:HOSPITIVMESTILLVD
5CORPORISHICDOMVSESTILLICPAVLISPER
REMORAMVSATHICHABITAMVS:
ILLVD
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Turpilia M(arci) l(iberta) Dionysia
M(arcus) Turpilius M(arci) ((mulieris)) l(ibertus) Eros.

Aedis aedificat dives, sapiens
monumentum: hospitium est illud,
5corporis hic domus est. Illic paulisper
remoramus, at hic habitamus:
illud
------
Turpilia M(arci) l(iberta) Dionysia M(arcus) Turpilius M(arci) ((mulieris)) l(ibertus) Eros.

Aedis aedificat dives, sapiens monumentum:
hospitium est illud, corporis hic domus est.
Illic paulisper remoramus, at hic habitamus:
illud ------
Apparatus

l.6 reg., orig. at

Text follows CIL, picture checked by V. González in 2023.
ll. 3-6: elegiac couplets.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameTurpilia Dionysia
    GenderFemale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameMarcus Turpilius Eros
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicator

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 51 AD
Date (To) 150 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography
  • prosopography

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-21, by Victoria González Berdús
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:03:53, ID there: EDR184120
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 10:03
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:15
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:20
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:23
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:24
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 10:23
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-21 10:43
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