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Identification

Reference as: MPL00770
Title Funerary inscription from Salona
Trismegistos-No. 183532

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Salona
Find Context
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Split, Archaeological Museum
Inventory number 4932A
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type sarcophagus
Material limestone
State of Preservation fragmentary
Dimensions

width: 35.0 cm

height: 34.5 cm

depth: 23.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.5
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Christian

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • No distinction
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate verses - Hedera
    • To separate verses - Interpunctions

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


------
[---]VO leaf
[---]IASVPREMO
[---]OFFICIVM
[---]VNCSESIVNGEREMAERENS
[---].SEDIDITHVNCTITVLVM leaf

------
[---] ṣuo ((leaf))
[---]I(?)A supremo
[---]ṭ officium
[--- n]unc se si f̣ungere maerens
[---]ụs edidit hunc titulum ((leaf))
------ [] ṣuo ((leaf)) [---]I(?)A supremo [---]ṭ officium [--- n]unc se si f̣ungere maerens [---]ụs edidit hunc titulum ((leaf))
Apparatus

Text follows (Marin et al. 2010). Checked on picture by Danvers 2024.
ILJug 2638: Only four lines are mentioned. The missing first lines and the last line have been omitted.

Main Translation

Translation ... on the last... duty... now, if, grieving that he/she accomplished [his/her destiny?]... has written this epitaph.
Citation Christophe Danvers

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Prosopographical Information

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 301 AD
Date (To) 400 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

Bibliography

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  • Funerary inscription from Salona

    Funerary inscription from Salona

    (c) Archaeological Museum Salona

Editing History

Created 2025-03-31, by Christophe Danvers
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice
Revisions
  1. by Christophe Danvers
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  2. by Christophe Danvers
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  4. by Chiara Cenati
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  9. by Chiara Cenati
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  11. by Christophe Danvers
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  13. by Christophe Danvers
    at 2024-02-24 20:58
  14. by Christophe Danvers
    at 2024-02-25 11:40
  15. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-03-08 22:58
  16. by Christophe Danvers
    at 2024-03-09 16:02
  17. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-10-23 11:46
  18. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-10-23 11:47
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