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Identification

Reference as: MPL00618
Title Funerary inscription for Lucius Turranius Optatus
Trismegistos-No. 589663

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, unknown (seen for the first time in Rome, Palazzo Merolli)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location
Inventory number
Current Location Details unknown
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 CorrespondenceNo

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

LTVRRANIVSOPTATVS
VIXANNXXXV

TELAPISOBTESTORLEVITERSVPER
OSSARESIDASNIDOLEAT
5NOSTRICONDITVSOFFICIO
L(ucius) Turranius Optatus
vix(it) ann(is) XXXV.

Te lapis obtestor leviter super
ossa residas ni doleat
5nostri conditus officio.
L(ucius) Turranius Optatus vix(it) ann(is) XXXV.

Te lapis obtestor leviter super ossa residas
ni doleat nostri conditus officio.
Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. ni

Text follows CIL.
ll. 3-5: Elegiac couplet

Main Translation

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameLucius Turranius Optatus
    GenderMale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60) [expression: Canonical]
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 50 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-22, by Victoria González Berdús
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:03:58, ID there: EDR184121
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 10:03
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:30
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:34
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:36
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 10:36
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 10:34
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-22 16:05
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