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Identification

Reference as: MPL00629
Title Funerary inscription for Zelotos
Trismegistos-No. 591224

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, unknown (first seen in Rome, collection Giustiniani)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Lapidaria
Inventory number 8570
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 76.0 cm

height: 56.0 cm

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 PresenceCarmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To mark a pentameter in an elegiac couplet (indentation)

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


SICTIBICONTINGATFELICITERIREVIATOR
INMATVRAMEOPERLEGEFATALOCO
ZELOTOSIACEOVIXIDVMFATASINEBANT
SITAMENHAECVITAESTTAMCITOPOSSEMORI
5BISMIISEPTENISFINISDATVSVLTIMVSANNIS
NOMINEMERAPVITMORSINIMICAMEO

Sic tibi contingat feliciter ire viator
inmatura meo perlege fata loco.
Zelotos iaceo, vixi dum fata sinebant
si tamen haec vita est tam cito posse mori
5bis mi⸢h⸣i septenis finis datus ultimus annis
nomine me rapuit mors inimica meo.

Sic tibi contingat feliciter ire viator
inmatura meo perlege fata loco.
Zelotos iaceo, vixi dum fata sinebant
si tamen haec vita est tam cito posse mori
bis mi⸢h⸣i septenis finis datus ultimus annis
nomine me rapuit mors inimica meo.
Apparatus

l.2 reg., orig. inmatura
l.5 sic, orig.
l.6 reg., orig. nomine

Text follows CIL, picture checked by V. González in 2023.
l. 5: MIIII in lapide

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameZelotos
    GenderMale
    Age RangeSubadult (13–20) [expression: Canonical]
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 200 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

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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 2023-12-07T10:04:55, ID there: EDR184170
Revisions
  1. by Victoria González Berdús
    at 2023-12-07 10:04
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 14:30
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 14:35
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-19 14:35
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-02-21 10:53
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-02-23 16:19
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