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Inscriptions: Epitaph of the freedwoman Fabia Ianuaria by her patron Fabius Venustus

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Identification

Reference as: MPL00819
Title Epitaph of the freedwoman Fabia Ianuaria by her patron Fabius Venustus
Trismegistos-No. 223147

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Urso
Find Context Farm called "La Dueña Baja", found during works on the access road.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location private collection
Inventory number
Current Location Details In the former house of M. Domínguez Puerta, last seen in 1978.
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material marble
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 44.0 cm

height: 55.0 cm

depth: 4.5 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 3.5
Letter Size in cm (max) 4.5
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Unknown

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography Inscription within engraved frame. Above the frame, patera flanked by two rosettes with eight petals.
Decoration Tags
  • Architecture / Rosette
  • Architecture / frame
  • Object / Patera

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • No distinction
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Left aligned
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Left aligned
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo, but follows metrical subdivisions
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To separate words - Interpunction

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

FABIAIANVARIAANN
XXVPIAINSVIS
QVIS
QVISTVNCVIVISAMASTI

SIMODOSVNTNOCTES
5NECPERIEREDIES

STTLPOSITFABIVS
VENVSTVSPATRONVS
Fabia Ianuaria, ann(orum)
XXV, pia in suis.-
Quis-
quis tunc vivis, amasti,

si modo sunt noctes
5nec periere dies.

S(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis). Pos<u>it Fabius
Venustus patronus.
Fabia Ianuaria, ann(orum) XXV, pia in suis.

Quisquis tunc vivis, amasti,

si modo sunt noctes nec periere dies.
S(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis). Pos<u>it Fabius Venustus patronus.
Apparatus

l.3 reg., orig. amasti
l.5 reg., orig. periere

Text follows CIL 02 (2nd ed.). Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
ll. 2-3: end of hexameter, Rodríguez Neila.

Main Translation

Translation Fabia Ianuaria, twenty-five years old, loved by her family.

Whoever you are, if you are alive, then you loved, if there are nights and days.

May the earth be light upon you. Fabius Venustus, her patron, put this up.
Citation Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameFabia Ianuaria
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
    Legal StatusFreedman / Freedwoman
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameFabius Venustus
    GenderMale
    RoleDedicator

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by Rodríguez Neila. González Fernández (CILA) propses a dating to the 2nd century based on palaeography. Cugusi (CLEHisp) proposes a dating to the end of the 2nd century AD, though without criteria.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 171 AD
Date (To) 230 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • palaeography
  • history
  • archaeology

Bibliography

Images

  • Epitaph of the freedwoman Fabia Ianuaria by her patron Fabius Venustus.

    Epitaph of the freedwoman Fabia Ianuaria by her patron Fabius Venustus.

    Source: EDCS-08701195 (c) J. F. Rodríguez Neila

Editing History

Created 2025-10-10, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T11:59:59, ID there: HD006395
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-11 11:59
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-07-28 18:02
  3. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-07-28 18:02
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 14:54
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-04 13:41
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-04 13:45
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-08-04 13:47
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-08-06 11:00
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-08-06 12:23
  10. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-09-15 07:12
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-10-10 11:57
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