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TM 263465 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/263465

also known as Epitaph of Allia Potestas

TM Gallery info The Epitaph of Allia Potestas (TM 263465) is a marble epitaph of the first to second century AD (?). It was found in Rome in 1912, and is now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme in Rome.
The tombstone is inscribed with a poem in hexameters and pentameters, and is famous because of its unusual contents with surprising erotic details. Apparently this hardworking freedwoman ('first to rise and last to sleep') lived together 'in harmony' with two young lovers, kept her limbs smooth, and 'the curve of her breasts was small on her snow-white bosom'. The author, probably one of the two lovers, mourns her loss and adds that he is now 'growing old by himself'.
An English translation of the text is available at stoa.org

Metadata

Date: 1st - 2nd century AD: AD 1 - 199

Provenance: Rome - Italy (LatiumThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - Latium et Campania (Regio I)The Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Latin

Material: stone (marble) — slab

Completely preserved

Content (beta!): metrical funerary inscription

More info: CILCorpus Inscriptionum Latinarum => 20296 links in TM, CIL squeeze => links in TM, EDCSEpigraphische Datenbank Clauss-Slaby => 500857 links in TM, EDHEpigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg => 73070 links in TM, EDREpigraphic Database Roma => 99287 links in TM, MQDQ => links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM, other

Publications

CIL VI.4.3 37965 (Bang, Martinus - 1933) Please subscribe to follow this link [default]

∙Année épigraphique 2013 154 (Corbier, Mireille / e.a. - 2013 [2016])

∙Friggeri e.a. (ed.), Terme di Diocleziano. La collezione epigrafica p. 545-547 no. IX, 10 (Evangelisti, Silvia - 2012)

∙Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 85 (2003), p. 143-169 (Engster, D. - 2003)

∙Friggeri, La collezione epigrafica del Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano p. 168-169 (Friggeri, Rosanna - 2001)

∙Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 38 (1996), p. 268-269 (Gómez Pallarès, Joan - 1996)

∙Studia et documenta historiae et iuris (SDHI) 61 (1995), p. 623-655 (Rizzelli, G. - 1995)

∙Baldwin, An anthology of later Latin literature p. 68-76 (Baldwin, Barry - 1987)

∙ZPE 61 (1985), p. 251 (1985)

∙Année épigraphique 1929 p. 27 [p. 105-122 - 88] descr. (Cagnat, René / Besnier, Maurice - 1929 [1930])

∙Bücheler, Carmina Latina epigraphica (CLE) 3 1988 (Bücheler, Franz / Lommatzsch, Ernest - 1926)

∙Année épigraphique 1913 88 (Cagnat, René / Besnier, Maurice - 1913 [1914]) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙Rivista di filologia e d'istruzione classica (RFIC) 41 (1913), p. 385-400 (Lenchantin de Gubernatis, Massimo - 1913)

Other bibliography: E. Mitchell, ZPE 227 (2023), p. 253-264; M. Panciera, ZPE 227 (2023), p. 265-275

Collections

→ Rome, Museo Nazionale delle Terme sala IX 58694

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