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Identification

Reference as: MPL00797
Title Funerary inscription for a person who died at sea
Trismegistos-No. 212608

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Lugdunum
Find Context Found in the Rhone at the Pont de la Guillotière in Lyon (right side, downstream)
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Lyon, Musée Gallo-Romain Lyon Fourvière
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type altar
Material limestone
State of Preservation fragmentary
Dimensions

width: 58.0 cm

height: 66.0 cm

depth: 40.0 cm

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 PresenceCarmen + subscriptum
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


[------]FI[---]
[---]IENCVRIO[]
[]SISCIREQVAE[]
CORPVSETIPSV[]
5[]RMAREROMAMP[]
5[]TALBEVSINSONTIS
PLVRESINTARTARO
MISIT
SVBASCIADEDICAVIT

[------]FI[---]
[---]ien curio[sus?]
[ubi] si scire quae[ris]
corpus et ips(um) u[t]
5[pe]r mare Romam p[et-]
5[i]t albeus insontis
plures in Tartaro
misit.
Sub ascia dedicavit.
[------]FI[---]
[]ien curio[sus? ubi] si scire quae[ris]
corpus et ips(um) u[t pe]r mare Romam p[et-]|(5)[i]t
albeus insontis plures in Tartaro misit.
Sub ascia dedicavit.
Apparatus

Text follows Rougé 1982. Checked on picture by Cenati 2025.

Main Translation

Translation If you are cursious of knowing where his body is, it arrived to Rome by sea. The Albeus sent many innocent to the Tartarus.
Citation Chiara Cenati

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Prosopographical Information

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 101 AD
Date (To) 230 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography

Bibliography

Images

  • Funerary inscription for a person who died at sea

    Funerary inscription for a person who died at sea

    Source: https://www.persee.fr/doc/bmml_0521-7032_1982_num_7_1_1612

Editing History

Created 2025-12-17, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T11:57:50, ID there: HD000465
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-11 11:57
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-07-23 12:11
  3. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-07-23 12:12
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 15:59
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-12-16 12:41
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-12-16 12:45
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-17 14:32
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-17 14:41
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-17 14:41
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