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Identification

Reference as: MPL00964
Title Epitaph from Tibiscum – Caransebeş (Dacia)
Trismegistos-No. 180912

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Tibiscum
Find Context It was found in 1880 in the village of Jupa, near the ruins of the castra of Tibiscum.
Latitude 45.4582
Longitude 22.1867
Current Location unknown
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type stele
Material marble
State of Preservation
Dimensions

width: 60.0 cm

height: 34.0 cm

depth: unknown

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

Text

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

Inscription & Translations


[------]
[]MPATRIAQVENOTAVIT
[]XANDRIACOIVGEIVNXIT
[]APERTVLITANNOS
[]ARVMFABVLARERVM
5[]ONGESTAFAMALABORVM

[------]
[quem Nilotica ripa suu]m patriaque notavit
[ingenioque et Ale]xandria co(n)iuge iunxit
[quacum nil questus trigint]a pertulit annos
[iamque levis pereat van]arum fabula rerum
5[permaneat modo re c]ongesta fama laborum.
[------]
[quem Nilotica ripa suu]m patriaque notavit
[ingenioque et Ale]xandria co(n)iuge iunxit
[quacum nil questus trigint]a pertulit annos
[iamque levis pereat van]arum fabula rerum
[permaneat modo re c]ongesta fama laborum.
Apparatus

Text follows Kruschwitz, Murzea, 2024.

Main Translation

Translation "... [whom the bank of the Nile] has marked as its possession, by fatherland [and talent: what is more,] he married in Alexandria, a wife [with whom, without complaints, he lived for thirty] years. [May that inconsequential] tale of [meaningless] matters [die out already, may only that] acclaim of hard work, [based on what has been] achieved, [persist.]"
Citation Kruschwitz, Murzea 2024

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Further Information

Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 107 AD
Date (To) 275 AD
Date (Criteria)
  • history

Bibliography

Images

  • Imported from EDCS.

Editing History

Created 2026-08-27, by Andreea Petricioiu
Work Status Complete
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:14:41, ID there: HD046573
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-07-11 12:14
  2. by Eric Andreas Kunz
    at 2024-08-13 22:05
  3. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2025-01-29 15:19
  4. by Andreea Petricioiu
    at 2026-01-31 12:50
  5. by Andreea Petricioiu
    at 2026-01-31 12:54
  6. by Andreea Petricioiu
    at 2026-01-31 13:24
  7. by Andreea Petricioiu
    at 2026-01-31 13:44
  8. by Andreea Petricioiu
    at 2026-01-31 13:45
  9. by Andreea Petricioiu
    at 2026-01-31 13:45
  10. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-02-02 16:52
  11. by Andreea Petricioiu
    at 2026-02-02 21:47
  12. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2026-02-03 13:29
  13. by Anna Martelli
    at 2026-08-27 13:18
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