Inscriptions: Epitaph of the freedwoman Scandilia Pamphila

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00834
Title	Epitaph of the freedwoman Scandilia Pamphila
Trismegistos-No.	120879

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Dyrrachium
Find Context	Found during construction of a water canal in Fusha Bejlikut, on the right hand side of the road to Spitallë, opposite the north-easter section of the perimeter wall of the hospital.
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Durrës, Muzeu Kombëtar Arkeologjik
Inventory number
Current Location Details
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EDR104919"}, {"coords": [40.3, 18.1167], "id": 1909, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1909", "long_id": "MPL01909", "place": "Rudiae (San Pietro in Lama)", "text": "EperastusAlexsionus,s(e)rv(us), vix(it) ann(is) XI\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Rudiae - EDR169302"}, {"coords": [40.3, 18.1167], "id": 1910, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1910", "long_id": "MPL01910", "place": "Rudiae (San Pietro in Lama)", "text": "Statili Ianuar[i],Megistio\u2e22treptus\u2e23h(ic) s(itus) e\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Rudiae - EDR169304"}, {"coords": [40.6387, 17.9429], "id": 1252, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1252", "long_id": "MPL01252", "place": "Brundisium", "text": "D(is) M(anibus).\u2e22Erucia\u2e23 C(ai) l(iberta)Oecumenev(\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Brundisium - EDR077095"}, {"coords": [40.6387, 17.9429], "id": 1886, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1886", "long_id": "MPL01886", "place": "Brundisium", "text": "Si non molestum est, hospes, consiste et lege.Navi\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Brundisium - EDR167254"}, {"coords": [40.6387, 17.9429], "id": 1905, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1905", "long_id": "MPL01905", "place": "Brundisium", "text": "------[---]+++ \u03a0\u0391\u03a3\u0399 [---][---] \u0392\u03c1[\u03b5]\u03bd\u03c4\u1f73\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u03a0\u039f\u0398\u0395 [-\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Brundisium - EDR168657"}]

Object Details

Object Type	stele
Material	limestone
State of Preservation	incomplete
Dimensions	width: 40.0 cm height: 81.0 cm depth: 10.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	1.5
Letter Size in cm (max)	4.0
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography	Stele topped by moulded tympanum with acroteria on top and right end. On pediment, relief of genius holding a torch. Beneath the tympanum, ll. 1-2 inscribed within tabula ansata. Below the tabula, portrait of woman wearing a stola and palla, lying asleep on kline with her left arm stretched over her head. Ll. 3-10 inscribed under the portrait, on epigraphica field.
Decoration Tags	God / Genius Object / Kline Object / Palla Object / Stola Object / Tabula ansata Person / Human figure Person / portrait Person / woman

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence	Praescriptum + carmen
Prose Verse Distinction	Yes, by different layout
Layout Types (Prose)	Justified
Layout Types (Verse)	Justified
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	No
Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading	To separate words - Interpunction

Text

Function	funerary inscription
Language(s)	Latin
Verse Type(s)	Trochaic septenarius
Rhythmisation	Mixed scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

Tabula ansata:
[]ANDILIACLHIC
[]MPHILAREQVIESCIT

Epigraphic field:

HOSPESNOLIADMIRARE
QVODSICMEINLEC͡TOVI[]
5RECVBANTED[]RMIEN[]
MORTVASVMS[]M[---]
DORMIREPVTA[---]
FILIASPIAETAMA[---]
LAETORQVOD[---]
10VIDIFILIAS[---]

Tabula ansata:
[Sc]andilia C(ai) l(iberta) hic
[Pa]mphila requiescit.

Epigraphic field:

Hospes noli admirare
quod sic me in lec͡to viḍ[es]
5recubante<m> d[o]rmien[te<m>]
mortua sum s[i]m[---]
dormire puta[s ---]
filias pia et ama[---]
laetor quod [---]
10vidi filias [---].

Tabula ansata: [Sc]andilia C(ai) l(iberta) hic [Pa]mphila requiescit.

Epigraphic field:

Hospes noli admirare quod sic me in lec͡to viḍ[es]
recubante<m> d[o]rmien[te<m>] mortua sum s[i]m[---]
dormire puta[s ---] filias pia et ama[---]
laetor quod [---] vidi filias [---].

Apparatus

Text follows LIA. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 1: ...andilia G(ai) liberta, Toçi 1962, 1965.
l. 2: ...amphila, Toçi 1962, 1965.
l. 4: inlecto vi(des), Toçi 1962, 1965. vi[des], Cugusi and Sblendorio Cugusi.
l. 5: d(o)rmien(te), Toçi 1962, 1965. recubante, CLE.
l. 6: s(i)m(ile), Toçi 1962, 1965. s[i]m[ilis tui], Cugusi and Sblendorio Cugusi.
l. 7: dormire puta..., Toçi 1962, 1965.
l. 8: ama(ta), Toçi 1962, 1965.

Main Translation

Translation	Tabula ansata: Scandilia Pamphila, freedwoman of Caius, lies here to rest. Epigraphic field: Stranger, do not wonder why you are seeing me like this, lying, sleeping in this bed. I am dead ... you think I am sleeping ... devoted and dear to her daughters ... I rejoice, since ... I saw my daughters ...
Citation	Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

Name Scandilia Pamphila
Gender Female
Legal Status Freedman / Freedwoman
Role Dedicatee

Name	Scandilia Pamphila
Gender	Female
Legal Status	Freedman / Freedwoman
Role	Dedicatee

Further Information

Comment

A dating of the inscription remains uncertain, broadly within the early imperial period, as suggested by Ehmig and Haensch (LIA). Cugusi and Sblendorio Cugusi and Cugusi (CLE) hypothesise a dating to the 3rd century AD alone.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	1 AD
Date (To)	300 AD
Date (Criteria)	palaeography formulae

Bibliography

CIA 00107 (with photo, 95)
LIA 00114 (with photo, 190; also on dating)
CLE 02702 (also on dating)
V. Toçi, Mbishkrime e relieve nga nekropoli i Dyrrahit. Inscriptions of the sepulchral reliefs from the Dyrrachium necropolis, Buletin i Universitetit shtetëror të Tiranës 16, 2 (1962), 108-110, nr. 53 (with photo, fig. 53) 🔗 link
V. Toçi, Inscriptions et reliefs de la nécropole de Dyrrah (Dyrrachium), Stud. Alb. 1965, 2 (1965), 78-79, nr. 53 (with photo, fig. 53) - AE 1966 🔗 link
AE 1966, 00404
P. Cugusi, Nuovi carmi epigrafici in versificazione trocaica, Invig. Luc. 26 (2004), 82. 🔗 link
P. Cugusi, Aspetti letterari dei Carmina Latina Epigraphica (2nd. Edition), Bologna 1996, 239-240, nr. 9. 🔗 link
P. Cugusi, M. Sblendorio Cugusi, Carmina Latina Epigraphica delle province greco-orientali (CLEOr), Epigraphica 73 (2011), 166, nr. 9 (also on dating) 🔗 link
É. Deniaux, L'épigraphie de Dyrrachium, colonie romaine. In: M.-L. Haack (ed.), L'écriture et l'espace de la mort. Épigraphie et nécropoles à l'époque préromaine, Rome 2016, 514-518 (with photo, 517, fig. 4) 🔗 link
H. Beste, R. Haensch et al., Inschriften und Fragmente einer Arkadenarchitektur aus einer Notgrabung am Hafen von Durrës (Epidamnos – Dyrrachium), Archäologischer Anzeiger 2015, 2 (2017), 52. 🔗 link
É. Deniaux, Les colonies romaines de l’Albanie d’aujourd’hui (Dyrrachium, Byllis, Buthrote) et l’héritage grec. In: C. Brélaz (ed.), L'héritage grec des colonies romaines d'orient. Interactiosn culturelles dans le provinces hellénophones de l'empire romain. Actes du colloque de Strasbourg (8-9 novembre 2013), Paris 2017, 70-71 (with photo, 70, fig. 3) 🔗 link
EDCS-10701910 🔗 link
HD016379 🔗 link
lupa.at/20634 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

Images

Stele with epitaph of the freedwoman Scandilia Pamphila.
Source: lupa.at/20634 (c) Matijevic Kresimir
Praescriptum within tabula ansata of the epitaph of Scandilia Pamphila, above her portrait.
Source: lupa.at/20634 (c) Matijevic Kresimir
Epigraphic field with verses form the epitaph of Scandilia Pamphila.
Source: lupa.at/20634 (c) Matijevic Kresimir

Editing History

Created	2025-11-04, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status	Complete
Import Notice	Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:01:32, ID there: HD016379

Revisions

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by Eric Andreas Kunz
at 2024-07-30 14:22
by Eric Andreas Kunz
at 2024-07-30 14:24
by Eric Andreas Kunz
at 2024-07-30 14:26
by Anna Pokorny
at 2025-01-29 15:03
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-10-27 09:30
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-10-27 10:33
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at 2025-10-27 10:56
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at 2025-10-27 15:06
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