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Identification

Reference as: MPL00708
Title Funerary inscription for [---]inius Gamus
Trismegistos-No. 594594

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Roma
Find Context Roma, via Salaria and via Pinciana (in 1899)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum
Inventory number KY.Lou.SAM.L.1929.17.464
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type slab
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
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

[---]INIVSLLGAMVS

[]TILLESITVSQVEI
[]SAMICVSAMICO
[]EFIDEFVERITMORS
5[]INDICIOVAXXXXV
[---]inius L(uci) l(ibertus) Gamus.

[Hic es]t ille situs quei
[qual]ịs amicus amico
[quoqu]e fide fuerit mors
5[fuit] indicio. V(ixit) a(nnis) XXXXV.
[---]inius L(uci) l(ibertus) Gamus.

[Hic es]t ille situs quei
[qual]ịs amicus amico
[quoqu]e fide fuerit mors
[fuit] indicio. V(ixit) a(nnis) XXXXV.
Apparatus

l.2 reg., orig. quei

Text follows CIL and CLE, picture checked by Melmeluzzi in 2021.
l. 4: visible close to the fracture a horizontal line pertinent to the Q of quoque or rather the T of fuit present in the next line.
l. 5: XXXXIV (CIL).

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Prosopographical Information

  • Name[---]inius Gamus
    GenderMale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60)
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 100 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology
  • palaeography

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Editing History

Created 2025-05-28, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2023-12-07T10:11:33, ID there: EDR182234
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2023-12-07 10:11
  2. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-26 08:48
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-26 08:49
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-26 08:50
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-28 12:51
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-05-28 12:55
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-05-28 13:04
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