Funerary carmen

Funerary carmen

Description

Idno filename 22/01/0041
Type of inscription: Sepulcralis
Material: Limestone
Conservation status: Fragment.
Dimensions height/width/depth (cm): 22/18/12.5
Epigraphic field:
- Layout: Good "ordinatio".
Preserved

Lyrics

Font:Capital cuadrada
Letter size:2 cm
Description of the letters:Letters very deeply cut.

Location

Place of discovery: Found in Fuencaliente (Ciudad Real), in La Dehesa, where there is now a football pitch.
Geolocation

Conservation location: it is preserved in the MAP in Ciudad Real.
Inventory number: 403/04
Location with Modern Nomenclature España / Ciudad Real / Fuencaliente
Location with Old Nomenclature Hispania / Baetica / Cordubensis / Solia

Chronology

Inscription's dating: Between year 1 and year 99
Dating explanation: From the 1st c. AD approximately, from the form of the letters.

Type of verse

Type of verse: Dactílico (hexámetro)
Verse/line correspondence: No
Prose/verse distinction: No

Epigraphic edition

‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑

[‑ ‑ ‑]+ḅit acerb+[‑ ‑ ‑]

[‑ ‑ ‑] mihi est ▴

[‑ ‑ ‑ c]ọncidit a[etas]

5 [‑ ‑ ‑] summus [‑ ‑ ‑]

[‑ ‑ ‑] ṣemper

[‑ ‑ ‑]unt brevi[ter?]

[‑ Cl]assice care

[‑ ‑ ‑]+a tẹḷḷus

10 ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑?

Text divided into verses and metric signs

‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑

[‑ ‑ ‑]bit acerb[‑ ‑ ‑] [ln|ln|ln|ln|l]kk|l[~]

[‑ ‑ ‑] mihi est [ln|ln|l||lkk|l]kk|~

[‑ ‑ ‑ c]oncidit ae[tas] [ln|ln|ln|ln]|lkk|l[~]

5 [‑ ‑ ‑] summus [‑ ‑ ‑] [ln|ln|l||lkk]|lk[k|~] o bien [ln|ln|ln|ln]|lk[k|l~]

[‑ ‑ ‑] semper [ln|ln|ln|ln|lkk]|l~

[‑ ‑ ‑]unt brevia [ln|ln|l||lkk]|lkk|~

[‑ – – Cl]assice care [ln|ln|ln|ln]|lkk|l~

[‑ ‑ ‑]a tellus [ln|ln|ln|ln|lk]x|l~

10 ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑?

Bibliography

Alföldy 1987, 229–234 adn. 3 cum im. phot. (AE 1987, 683; HEp 1990, 286); id., II2/7, 775, cum im. phot. in micr.; Fernández Martínez-Carande, CLEB, CR1 cum im. phot.; Abascal – García 2009, 269; Cugusi 2012, 33. – Cf. Hernández Pérez 2001a, 168–169.

Apparatus

1 abit acerbu[—] Alföldy; [casum miser]abit coniecit Cugusi dubitanter. – 3 + agnotum uti litt. E aut F Alföldy. – 7 [—Cl]assice Alföldy. – 8 +ATE++VS Alföldy, qui +++ pro summa trium rectorum ductuum parte accipit.

Comentary

A funerary carmen dedicated to a man (Classico) and composed in dactylic verse; because of the lack of preserved text it is not clear whether it is a succession of hexameters or elegiac distichs. In l. 1, -[a]bit appears to correspond to a future verb ending. In l. 3, the sequence [c]oncidit aetas has numerous epigraphical parallels, cf. CLE 376, 2 and 1966A. In l. 6, the cretic sequence sunt brevi could be avoided by following Alföldy 1987, 230, who took the following sign to be an indication of abbreviation (from breviter) instead of an interpunction. L. 8: it is very frequent to find tellus to refer to the origin of the deceased (1945, 2 Tiburtia tellus; 1312, 1 tellus Maurusia; 474, 3 Italia tellus), especially it the latter has been buried away from his or her homeland, a topos frequently found in association with that of mors immatura, thus in 1026, 1 Itala me rapuit crudeli funere tellus; 963, 11 quem Phrygia edidit tellus. There are no examples to verify that this cognomen was attested in Hispania (this would be the only case) but there are many in Rome (cf. Abascal 1994, p. 330 y Kajanto 1982, p. 319, where 18 examples are registered in CIL VI, 14 masculine et 4 feminine), which seems like one more argument to prove this hypothesis.