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Identification

Reference as: MPL00627
Title Funerary inscription for Marcus Ulpius Firmus
Trismegistos-No. 590862

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 sarcophagus
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 + subscriptum
    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)
  • iambo-trochaic rhythm
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

HICSITVSESTM
VLPIVSFIRMVSAL

ANIMABONASV
PERISREDDITA
5RAPTVSANYMPHIS

VIXANNVIIIIMVI
DECEPTORPARENTO
RVMVLPIVSNYMPHICVS
FILDVLCISSIMO
Hic situs est M(arcus)
Ulpius Firmus A(uli) l(ibertus).

Anima bona su-
peris reddita
5raptus a Nymphis.

Vix(it) ann(is) VIIII, m(ensibus) VI,
deceptor parento-
rum. Ulpius Nymphicus
fil(io) dulcissimo.
Hic situs est M(arcus) Ulpius Firmus A(uli) l(ibertus).

Anima bona su|peris reddita raptus a Nymphis.
Vix(it) ann(is) VIIII, m(ensibus) VI, deceptor parentorum. Ulpius Nymphicus fil(io) dulcissimo.
Apparatus

Text follows CIL, drawing checked by V. González in 2023.

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameMarcus Ulpius Firmus
    GenderMale
    Age RangeInfant (0–12) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameUlpius Nymphicus
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 101 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • names

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Editing History

Created 2025-02-23, by Victoria González Berdús
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:04:44, ID there: EDR184168
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 10:04
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 14:01
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 14:03
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 14:04
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 10:49
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-23 15:59
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-23 16:02
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