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Identification

Reference as: MPL00707
Title Fragmentary funerary inscription
Trismegistos-No. 598933

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Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Piazza Venezia, palazzo Torlonia
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location unknown
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Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
Material marble
State of Preservation fragmentary (non-adjoining fragments)
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

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Text

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

Inscription & Translations

Fragment A:
------
[---]CILESM[---]
[---]CANTVSM[---]
[---]MDVLCIRE[---]
[---]ENSGENIT[]
5[---]TVSS[---]
------Fragment B:
Column I:
------
[---]A
[⁦ - - - - - - - - - - ⁩]
[---]I
------Column II:
------
[---]RITET[---]
[---]RIIETVR[---]
5[---]VMENIDA[---]
[---]DESANNOSPOE[---]
[---]VLLVSECHIDNAEOS[---]
[]AMQVEPATRISREPETETPES[---]
INDVLGEMISERISTE[---]
10SICSALTEMVTNOBIS[---][---]
CONSPECTVLICEATCON[---]
ETTVNATAVENIPATRISQ[---]
LINQVEDOMVM[---][---]
SERVATVRSECRET[---]
15HICLOC[]
------
Fragment A:
------
[--- f]ạciles M[---]
[---]cantus M[---]
[---]m dulci re[---]
[--- dol]ens genit[or]
5[---]tus S[---]
------ Fragment B:
Column I:
------
[---]a
[⁦ - - - - - - - - - - ⁩]
[---]i
------ Column II:
------
[---]rit et [---]
[---]riietur [---]
5[---] Ẹumenida[s ---]
[---]ụdes annos poeṃ[---]
[---]ullus Echidnaeo S[---]
[i]amque patris repetet peṛs[---]
indulge miseris te[---]
10sic saltem ut nobis [---]ạṭạ[---]
conspectu liceat con[---]
et tu nata veni patrisq(ue) [---]
linque domum [---]c̣ẹṭ[---]
servatur secret[---]
15hic loc[us].
------
Fragment A: ------ [ f]ạciles M[--- ]cantus M[--- ]m dulci re[--- dol]ens genit[or ---]tus S[---] Fragment B:
Column I: ------ []a [------ ---]i ------ Column II: ------ []rit et [--- ]riietur [--- ] Ẹumenida[s --- ]ụdes annos poeṃ[--- ]ullus Echidnaeo S[--- i]amque patris repetet peṛs[---] indulge miseris te[---] sic saltem ut nobis [---]ạṭạ[---] conspectu liceat con[---] et tu nata veni patrisq(ue) [---] linque domum [---]c̣ẹṭ[---] servatur secret[---] hic loc[us]. ------
Apparatus

Text follows CIL, drawing checked by M. Tasso in 2022.
l. 4: [---]r ii etur[---] (Engström).
l. 5: [---] lumen ida[---] (Engström).
l. 6: [---]des annós póe[---] (Engström).
l. 7: [---]ullus Echidnaeós [---] (Engström).
l. 8: [n]amque patris repetet peps[---] (Engström).
l. 9: indulge miseris te[rra superstitibus] (CLE).
l. 10: [---]ạṭạ[---] omittit (Engström); [---] i [---] (CLE).
l. 11: conspectú liceat con[loquioque frui] (CLE), cf. Ov. Pont. 1, 4, 54.
l. 12: et tu náta veni patrisq[ue recumbe sepulcro] (CLE).
l. 13: [---]c̣ẹṭ[---] missing in (Engström).
l. 14: servátur secrét[a ---] (CLE).

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Dating

Date (From) 27 BC
Date (To) 14 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2025-05-28, by Mirko Tasso
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:11:28, ID there: EDR186292
Revisions
  1. by Mirko Tasso
    at 2023-12-07 10:11
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-21 12:41
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-21 12:46
  4. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-28 10:53
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-28 11:52
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-28 12:14
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