Inscriptions: Funerary stele for Flaminius

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00789
Title	Funerary stele for Flaminius
Trismegistos-No.	155746

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Habitancum
Find Context	At Townfoot Farm, 300 m. east of All Saints Church, East Woodburn, and over 1.2 km. north-east of Risingham fort. It had been cut vertically nearly into half, and was in use as a gatepost.
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Newcastle upon Tyne, Great North Museum, Hancock
Inventory number
Current Location Details
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Object Details

Object Type	stele
Material	sandstone
State of Preservation
Dimensions	width: 29.0 cm height: 123.0 cm depth: 30.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	3.8
Letter Size in cm (max)	4.0
Execution Technique
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence Carmen
Scriptio Continua in verse part no
Abbreviations in verse part no
Verse Line Correspondence No

Prose Verse Presence	Carmen
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	No

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

[---]INII[---]NSAE
[---]AEDOMINAR
[---]MPERGELI
[---]TEPRVINI[]
5[---]QVISIB[]
[---]IIIS
[---]FICTNI[---]
[---]VEFRAG[---]
[---]TIBIPRO
10[---]RCEPRO
[---]FLAMINIVSO
[---]EPROFVND[---]
[---]VCEMVOLV
[---]DEREVITAE

[---Flam]inii [---]nsae
[---]ae dominar-
[is--- se]mper geli-
[dis ---]te pruini[s]
5[---] qui sib[i]
[---]IIIS
[---]FICTNI[---]
[---]ue frag[---]
[---] tibi pro
10[---]RCE pro
[---] Flaminius O
[---] e profund[---]
[---l]ucem volv-
[it---]dere vitae.

[---Flam]inii [---]nsae [---]ae dominar[is--- se]mper geli[dis ---]te pruini[s ---] qui sib[i ---]IIIS [---]FICTNI[--- ]ue frag[--- ] tibi pro [---]RCE pro [---] Flaminius O [---] e profund[--- l]ucem volv[it---]dere vitae.

Apparatus

Main Translation

Translation	. . . of Flaminius . . .nsa . . . dominate . . . always in cold . . . frost . . . who himself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . broken . . . to you for . . . (spare?) for . . . Flaminius . . . . . . shed . . . light . . . he want- ed . . . of life.
Citation	Andreas Sommer

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

Further Information

Comment

Perhaps in hexameter.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	101 AD
Date (To)	300 AD
Date (Criteria)

Bibliography

CIL 07, 01020, cf. p. 312
RIB 01253
E. Phillips, Corbridge. Hadrian's Wall east of the North Tyne, Oxford 1977, 97-98, no. 265; Pl. 72, 265. 🔗 link
HD070455 🔗 link
RIB 1253 🔗 link
CLEO BR6 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

Images

Funerary innscription for Flaminius
RIB 1253 - Drawn by R.G.C., 1925.

Editing History

Created	2025-03-31, by Andreas Zommer
Work Status	Complete
Import Notice	Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-04-18T11:46:20, ID there: HD070455

Revisions

by Unknown
at 2024-04-18 11:46
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-08 12:10
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-08 12:20
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-08 12:22
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-08 12:29
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-08 12:33
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-11 09:47
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-11 09:49
by Andreas Zommer
at 2024-05-11 09:50
by Anna Pokorny
at 2024-07-25 09:40
by Chiara Cenati
at 2024-10-30 16:33
by Chiara Cenati
at 2024-10-30 16:34

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