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Identification

Reference as: MPL00903
Title Funerary inscription for Demetrios, soldier from Bythinia
Trismegistos-No. 196276

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Poetovio
Find Context Found in 1965 in Vičava
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Ptuj, Regional Museum
Inventory number RL 836
Current Location Details Lapidarium
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type sarcophagus
Material marble
State of Preservation incomplete
Dimensions

width: 55.0 cm

height: 35.0 cm

depth: 14.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 2.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 2.0
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography The monument is a sarcophagus or a urn
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresenceVerse
    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 mark the continuation of a verse in the following line (indentation)

Text

Function funerary inscription
Language(s)
  • Greek
Verse Type(s)
  • Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations


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[---]ΔΟΙΔ΄ΗΔΗΓΕΙΝΑΤΟΑ[---]
ΠΑΤΡΗΣΕΚΓΑΙΗΣΒΕΙΘΥΝΙΔΟΣΟΣΔΙΟΝ[]
ΣΟΥ
ΚΛΗΜΑΤΙΤΕΡΠΟΜΕΝΟΣΗΔΟΣΕΧΕΙΣΤΡΑΤΕ[---]
5ΙΠΠΩΔΑΙΝΕΑΛΗΜΕΤΕΤΙΜΕΝΟΝΕΚ
ΒΑΣΙΛΗΩΝ
ΞΥΝΗΜΟΙΡΑΒΙΟΥΚΑΙΘΑΝΑΤΟΥΔΑΜ[]
ΟΥΝΟΜΑΔΕΙΗΣΙΜΟΙΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΣ
ΟΥΔΕΜΕΤΥΜΒΩ
10ΑΜΝΗΣΤΟΝΣΤΟΡΓΗΘΗΚΕΝ[]
[]ΕΩΝ

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[---]ΔΟΙ δ΄ἤδη γεἶνατο Α[---]
Πάτρης ἐκ γαίης Βειθυνίδος, ὂς Διον[ύ-]
σου
κλήματι τερπόμενος ἦδος ἒχει στρατε[ι---]
5ἵππῳ ΔΑΙΝΕΑΛΗ με τετιμένον ἐκ
βασιλήων
ξυνὴ μοῖρα βίου καὶ θανάτου δάμ[ασεν].
ὂυνομα ΔΕΙΗΣΙΜΟΙ Δημήτριος
οὐδέ με τύμβῳ
10ἂμνηστον στοργὴ θῆκεν [ἐμῶν γο-]
[ν]έων.
------
[]ΔΟΙ δ΄ἤδη γεἶνατο Α[---] Πάτρης ἐκ γαίης Βειθυνίδος, ὂς Διον[ύ]σου
κλήματι τερπόμενος ἦδος ἒχει στρατε[ι---]
ἵππῳ ΔΑΙΝΕΑΛΗ με τετιμένον ἐκ βασιλήων
ξυνὴ μοῖρα βίου καὶ θανάτου δάμ[ασεν].
ὂυνομα ΔΕΙΗΣΙΜΟΙ Δημήτριος οὐδέ με τύμβῳ
ἂμνηστον στοργὴ θῆκεν [ἐμῶν γον]έων.
Apparatus

Text follows CIGP (3rd ed.)

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Prosopographical Information

  • NameDemetrios
    GenderMale
    OriginForeign
    ProfessionMilitary staff
    RoleDedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 170 AD
Date (To) 300 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • archaeology

Bibliography

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  • Funerary inscription for a soldier from Bythinia

    Funerary inscription for a soldier from Bythinia

    © Ptuj - Pokrajnski Muzej, Foto: Ortolf Harl 2005

Editing History

Created 2026-08-27, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:08:32, ID there: HD035596
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-11 12:08
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-10 13:52
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 15:47
  4. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2025-12-06 12:01
  5. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-29 10:49
  6. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-29 11:34
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-07-29 13:11
  8. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-08-27 09:51
  9. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-08-27 09:51
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