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Identification

Reference as: MPL00854
Title Funerary inscription for Paulla
Trismegistos-No. 210227

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Mogontiacum
Find Context Found in the year of 1836.
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Mainz, Landesmuseum Mainz
Inventory number S 22
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material limestone
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 57.0 cm

height: 148.0 cm

depth: 27.0 cm

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

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography Stele by a pine cone. Above the epigraphic field a frieze with a folding mirror, a comb, and two ointment vessels.
Decoration Tags
  • Object / comb
  • Object / mirror
  • Plant / Pine cone

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceProse + Verse
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceNo, but follows metrical subdivisions

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic pentameter
  • Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation

Inscription & Translations

PAVLLATI
IVLISELVANI
EXCHORSVR
ANNOXXIIX
5HSE

OSPESSIVACVM
ESTTVMVLICOG
NOSCERECASSVS
PERLEGENAMMO
10RTIS⟦[---]⟧CAVSSA
DOLENDAFVVIT
DICROGONVC:“IVVE
NISSITTIBITERRA
LEVIS”
Paulla Ti(beri)
Iuli Selvani
ex c(o)hor(te) Sur(orum)
anno(rum) XXIIX
5h(ic) s(ita) e(st).

<H>ospes si vacu(u)m
est tumuli cog-
noscere cassus
perlege nam mo-
10rtis ⟦[---]⟧ caussa
dolenda fu{u}it.
Dic rogo nu(n)c: “iuve-
nis sit tibi terra
levis”.
Paulla Ti(beri) Iuli Selvani ex c(o)hor(te) Sur(orum) anno(rum) XXIIX h(ic) s(ita) e(st).-

<H>ospes si vacu(u)m est tumuli cognoscere cassus
perlege nam mortis ⟦[---]⟧ caussa dolenda fu{u}it.
Dic rogo nu(n)c: “iuvenis sit tibi terra levis”.
Apparatus

l.8 cassus orig., reg. casus
l.10 caussa orig., reg. causa

Main Translation

Translation Paulla, wife of Tiberius Iulius Selvanus, from the cohors Surorum, lived for 28 years,
lies here.
Guest, if you are free to know of the tomb’s misfortune,
read through [...] for the reason of her death must be grieved. Now, say, I ask: “youthful woman, may the earth be light for you.
Citation Faithfull 2024

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NamePaulla
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60)
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameTiberius Iulius Selvanus
    GenderMale

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 1 AD
Date (To) 50 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • prosopography

Bibliography

Images

  • Funerary inscription for Paulla

    Funerary inscription for Paulla

    © Mainz - Landesmuseum, Foto: Ortolf Harl 2016 November

Editing History

Created 2026-10-15, by Anna Pokorny
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:03:33, ID there: HD022227
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-11 12:03
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-09 15:03
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 15:13
  4. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-11-18 14:54
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-18 15:52
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-18 15:53
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-18 15:54
  8. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-01-21 10:39
  9. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-01-21 10:41
  10. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2026-01-21 10:43
  11. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-01-26 17:59
  12. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-08-26 13:06
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