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Identification

Reference as: MPL00840
Title Epitaph by the poet Lupus
Trismegistos-No. 194289

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Ulcisia Castra
Find Context Found in 1958 used as a wall of a late antiquity funerary building at the Római sánc utca 36.
Latitude 47.6668
Longitude 19.064
Current Location Szentendre, Ferenczy Múzeumi Centrum
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type burial building
Material limestone
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 120.0 cm

height: 75.0 cm

depth: 35.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceCarmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


LVBRICAQVASSALEVIS[]
VITADATAESTHOMININONC[]
PERVARIOSCASVSTEN[]
VIVITOMORTALISDVNC[]
5SEVTERVRACOLENSVRBE[]
FLORESAVRAVENERISCERE[]
ETNYSYILARGAEETPING[]
CANDIDAVITACOLEIVS[]
IAMPVERETIVVENISIAM[]
10TALISERISTVMVLOSVP[]

Lubrica quassa levis [fragilis bona vel mala fallax]
Vita data est homini non c[erto limite cretae]
Per varios casus ten[uato stamine pendes]
Vivito mortalis dunc [dant tibi tempora Parcae]
5Seu te rura colens urbe[s seu castra vel aequor]
Flores aura Veneris Cere[ris bona munera carpe]
Et Nys{y}i largae et ping[uia dona Minervae]
Candida(m) vita(m) cole ius[tissima mente serenus]
Iam puer et iuvenis iam [vir et fessus ab annis]
10Talis eris tumulo sup[erumque oblitus honores.]

Lubrica quassa levis [fragilis bona vel mala fallax]
Vita data est homini non c[erto limite cretae]
Per varios casus ten[uato stamine pendes]
Vivito mortalis dunc [dant tibi tempora Parcae]
Seu te rura colens urbe[s seu castra vel aequor]
Flores aura Veneris Cere[ris bona munera carpe]
Et Nys{y}i largae et ping[uia dona Minervae]
Candida(m) vita(m) cole ius[tissima mente serenus]
Iam puer et iuvenis iam [vir et fessus ab annis]
Talis eris tumulo sup[erumque oblitus honores.]
Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. dunc

Achrostic: Lupus fecit.

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Comment

Traces of red colour in the letters. The same text can be found in MPL00059 and MPL02156.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 201 AD
Date (To) 230 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology
  • formulae

Bibliography

Images

  • © Szentendre - Ferenczi Károly Múzeum, Foto: Ortolf Harl 2003.

Editing History

Created 2025-04-17, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:02:12, ID there: HD017644
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-11 12:02
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-07-30 14:52
  3. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-07-30 14:57
  4. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-07-30 14:57
  5. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 15:06
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 09:24
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 09:36
  8. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 09:39
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 09:46
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 10:03
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 10:06
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 11:33
  13. by Chiara Cenati
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  14. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 11:36
  15. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-04-14 12:31
  16. by Chiara Cenati
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