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Identification

Reference as: MPL00662
Title Fragmentary funerary inscription
Trismegistos-No. 592749

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
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Current Location Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Galleria Lapidaria
Inventory number 3, 25, inv. 8951
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation fragmentary
Dimensions

width: 35.0 cm

height: 17.0 cm

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

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Text

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

Inscription & Translations

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[---]ENVIVIEQVILEGIT[---]
[---]ISCINERISPROFV[---]
[---]MANVLVCEN[---]
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[---]ṃen viviṭe qui legit [---]
[---]is cineris pro fu[---]
[---]ẹ manu lucen[---].
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[---]ṃen viviṭe qui legit [---]
[---]is cineris pro fu[---]
[---]ẹ manu lucen[---].
Apparatus

Text follows Manzella, picture checked by M. Tasso in 2022.
l. 2: [et lacrim]is cineris profu[sis] or, more probably, [et lacrim]is cineris pro fu[nere] according to CLE.
l. 3: luge n[---] (CLE).

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Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 201 AD
Date (To) 400 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

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  • Fragmentary funerary inscription

    Fragmentary funerary inscription

    https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.8951.0.0

Editing History

Created 2025-06-18, by Mirko Tasso
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:07:41, ID there: EDR186375
Revisions
  1. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-12-07 10:07
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-06-18 10:03
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-06-18 10:06
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-06-18 10:09
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-06-18 14:33
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-06-18 14:52
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