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Identification

Reference as: MPL00096
Title Funerary inscription for Urbana
Trismegistos-No. 408471

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Emona
Find Context
Latitude 0.0
Longitude 0.0
Current Location Ljubljana, Narodni muzej Slovenije
Inventory number L47
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material marble
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: 74.0 cm

height: 94.0 cm

depth: 18.0 cm

Letter Size in cm (min) 1.9
Letter Size in cm (max) 5.8
Execution Technique chiselled
Religion Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography The text is placed inside a round-arched frame; an ivy-leaf is placed in the spandrels next to architrave with the pilasters.
Decoration Tags
  • Architecture / architrave
  • Plant / Ivy leaf

Verse Layouts

  • Prose Verse PresencePraescriptum + carmen
    Prose Verse Distinction
    • Yes, by bigger lettering in prose
    Layout Types (Prose)
    • Centered
    Layout Types (Verse)
    • Justified
    • Left aligned
    Scriptio Continua in verse partno
    Abbreviations in verse partno
    Verse Line CorrespondenceYes
    Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading
    • To mark a pentameter in an elegiac couplet (indentation)

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

VRBANAIVLI
SALVIHS
ATIMETVSCONSERVFECIT

CONIVGEDIREPTAMEODIREPTAQNATIS
5EIMIHIFATALESCVRRAPVEREDEI?
NAMTERDENOSEGINATALESDVMVITAREMANSIT
NVNCTVMVLVSCINERESOSSAQLECTATEGIT
VADEAGENVNCHOSPESQVATEVIADVCITEVNTEM:
HVCOMNISFATISTVRBARELICTARVIT
Urbana Iuli
Salvi h(ic) s(ita).
Atimetus conserv(us) fecit.

Coniuge direpta meo direptaq(ue) natis,
5Ei mihi, fatales cur rapuere dei?
Nam ter denos egi natales dum vita remansit,
Nunc tumulus cineres ossaq(ue) lecta tegit.
Vade, age, nunc hospes qua te via ducit euntem:
Huc omnis fatis turba relicta ruit.
Urbana Iuli Salvi h(ic) s(ita). Atimetus conserv(us) fecit.

Coniuge direpta meo direptaq(ue) natis,
Ei mihi, fatales cur rapuere dei?
Nam ter denos egi natales dum vita remansit,
Nunc tumulus cineres ossaq(ue) lecta tegit.
Vade, age, nunc hospes qua te via ducit euntem:
Huc omnis fatis turba relicta ruit.
Apparatus

Main Translation

Translation Urbana, slave of Iulius Salvus lies here. Atimetus, her fellow slave had this made.
Taken away from my husband, and taken away from my children, woe betide me! Why did the gods of destiny snatch me away? For I was thirty years old while I was still alive. Now a grave covers my ashes and my bones gathered here. Go on, carry on, traveler, wherever your path leads you. Here rush all those whom fate abandoned.
Citation Team MAPPOLA

Other Translations

Prosopographical Information

  • NameUrbana
    GenderFemale
    Age RangeAdult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
    OriginUnknown
    Legal StatusSlave
    RoleDedicatee
  • NameAtimetus
    GenderMale
    Legal StatusSlave
    RoleDedicator
  • NameIulius Salvus
    GenderMale
    OriginUnknown
    Legal StatusRoman citizen

Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

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

Bibliography

Images

  • Epitapf of Urbana © Krešimir Matijević

Editing History

Created 2024-03-01, by Denisa Murzea
Work Status Confirmed
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Revisions
  1. by Denisa Murzea
    at 2024-02-29 16:14
  2. by Denisa Murzea
    at 2024-02-29 16:19
  3. by Denisa Murzea
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  4. by Denisa Murzea
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  5. by Denisa Murzea
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  6. by Denisa Murzea
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  7. by Denisa Murzea
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  8. by Denisa Murzea
    at 2024-02-29 16:59
  9. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-29 17:04
  10. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-29 17:09
  11. by Alexander Gangoly
    at 2024-02-29 17:09
  12. by Peter Kruschwitz
    at 2024-03-01 09:03
  13. by Peter Kruschwitz
    at 2024-03-01 09:10
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