Public inscription?
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Public inscription?
Description
- Idno filename 22/01/0061
- Type of inscription: Operis
- Material: Mármol Material Description: White colour.
- Conservation status: completely broken off on the right-hand side, so that about half the text was lost.
- Dimensions height/width/depth (cm): 100/88/6
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Epigraphic field:
- Layout: In the original the words are not separated by points.
Location
- Place of discovery: Found in Málaga (Malaca) on 16 February 1905 (according to LEÓN 1970), in the course of the demolition of the Moorish wall that gave onto the sea at the foot of the Alcazaba of Málaga(RODRÍGUEZ OLIVA).
- Geolocation
- Location with Modern Nomenclature España / Málaga
- Location with Old Nomenclature Hispania / Baetica / Gaditanus / Malaca
Chronology
- Inscription's dating: Between year 170 and year 230
- Dating explanation: The first editors dated it to the late 2nd c. or beginning of the 3rd c. from its paleography.
Type of verse
- Type of verse: Dactílico (hexámetro)
- Verse/line correspondence: Si
- Prose/verse distinction: No
Epigraphic edition
hic ubi congestis mons [‑ ‑ ‑]
mersaque ruderibus telḷ[us] [‑ ‑ ‑]
splendida tecta nimis p̣[‑ ‑ ‑]
surrexere cito pulchr[‑ ‑ ‑]
5 hoc opus egregi⁽um⁾ luce++[‑ ‑ ‑]
tempore curarum+[‑ ‑ ‑]
aeternam adquir[i ‑ ‑]
Text divided into verses and metric signs
hic, ubi congestis mons [—] lkk|ll|l/l|[ln|lkk|l~]
mersaque ruderibus tel[lus] lkk|lkk|l/l|[ln|lkk|l~]
splendida tecta nimis, [—] lkk|lkk|l/[n|ln|lkk|l~]
surrexere cito, pulchr[—] ll|lkk|l/l|[ln|lkk|l~]
5 hoc opus egregium luce++[—] lkk|lkk| l/l|l[n|lkk|l~]
tempore curarum +[—] lkk|ll|l/[l|ln|lkk|l~]
aeternam adquir [i—] ll|ll|[ln|ln|lkk|l~]
Translation
“Here, where a hill … and the earth buried among piles of rubble … truly magnificent mansions … were quickly erected, with beautiful … This outstanding work … in difficult times … achieving an eternal…”
Bibliography
Fita 1905, 423–425 (inde AE 1905, 115; Rodríguez de Berlanga 1906, 150–161; Engström 1912, 101; Bücheler, CLE 1906, cuius exemplum in linguam Hispanicam vertit Fernández Martínez 1998-99; Vives, ILER 5756; León 1970a, 52–54; id. 1970b, 5; Rodríguez Oliva 1987, 199–200 cum im. phot.); Fernández Martínez – Carande, CLEB MA2, cum im. phot, quae in linguam Hispanicam verterunt.
Apparatus
2 tel FITA et inde VIVES, BÜCHELER. – 3 nimis p FITA, nimis f RODRÍGUEZ DE BERLANGA, RODRÍGUEZ OLIVA. – 5 lucen[tum] FITA et inde BÜCHELER, lucem RODRÍGUEZ DE BERLANGA, RODRÍGUEZ OLIVA, lucent VIVES. – 6 curarum r FITA, curarum p RODRÍGUEZ DE BERLANGA, RODRÍGUEZ OLIVA. – 7 adquiri FITA et inde BÜCHELER, adquir RODRÍGUEZ DE BERLANGA, RODRÍGUEZ OLIVA, adquiri laudem VIVES.
Comentary
Fragment of an inscription, probably from a public building, in dactyls (possibly hexameters). Fita attributes the text to C. Vallius Maximianus, procurator of Mauretania Tingitana under the mandate of emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, during which time he defended Baetica. It is too fragmentary to draw any definite conclusions. However, Rodríguez de Berlanga, on the basis of luce (l. 5), suggests that the opus egregium (l. 5) could be identified with the lighthouse whose memory is preserved in the name of the hill above the Alcazaba: Gibralfaro. Following this hypothesis and aware of the limitations when reconstructing the seven verses with accurate prosody and metre he proposed a prose (!) reconstruction of the lost part. Parallels: CLE 1910,1; 1996,5. Lack of graphic assimilation in adquiri, l. 7.
Images
Photo author: M. Rodríguez de Berlanga y Rosado Link to DB
Author
- Author:C. Fernández Martínez, R. Carande Herrero
- Last Update2023-11-20 15:02:40
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