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Reference as: MPL00881
Title Epitaph to an unknown dedicatee from Urso
Trismegistos-No. 223108

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Urso
Find Context Found in the necropolis of Las Cuevas. 1746 manuscript transmission by Antonio García de Córdoba.
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Current Location Lost
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Object Details

Object Type unknown
Material local stone
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

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

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Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Elegiac couplet
  • Hemiepes
Rhythmisation Mixed scheme

Inscription & Translations

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LL
XXTECVMTRANSFERS
NONAMPLIVSANNOSDEBVE
RASTAMENHABVISSEMILLE

STTL
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L(- - -) L(- - -)
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XX tecum transfers
non amplius annos, debue-
ras tamen habuisse mille.

S(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).
------ L(- - -) L(- - -)
.

XX tecum transfers non amplius annos,
debueras tamen habuisse mille.

S(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).
Apparatus

Text follows CIL 02 (2nd ed.).
l. 1: LXX as septuaginta, CIL 02. L(uci) l(ibertus), Cholodniak. l(ibens) l(aetus), CILA. {L} L, CLEHisp.

Main Translation

Translation ... You take with you no more than twenty years, yet you should have reached a thousand. May the earth be light upon you.
Citation Fabio Spalla

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Comment

Due to the almost complete lack of the praescriptum, there are no certain criteria for dating. Stylow and González Fernández (CIL 02 [2nd ed.]) propose a dating either to the 1st or the 2nd century AD. Cugusi (CLEHisp) proposes a narrower dating to the end of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century AD.

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Editing History

Created 2025-11-25, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:06:13, ID there: HD031667
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-11 12:06
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-10 12:02
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 15:54
  4. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-11-21 10:53
  5. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-11-21 10:54
  6. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-11-21 10:56
  7. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-11-21 11:04
  8. by Fabio Spalla
    at 2025-11-21 11:17
  9. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-11-25 18:24
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