SPL027. Funerary inscription

Monument

Type of monument
Stele
Material
Limestone
Description and condition
In the upper register, relief representation of three female busts with veiled heads: on the left, an older vailed female holding an apple in the hand, on the right, a younger woman holding an ivy leaf, and in the middle, a girl holding a bird. In the register above, a pediment with a rosette and acroteria on the left and right
Find place
Kolovrat
Find circumstances
Unknown
Find context
Unknown
Modern location
The monument was in the churchyard in Prijepolje in 1975, then moved to the Roman necropolis in the yard of the factory LJ. Miodragović in Kolovrat. Now lost?
Dimensions
H. 126,W. 62,Th. 21
Institution and inventory
museum/archiveinventory number

Inscribed field

Placement of text
Inscription field in a frame; dimensions: h. 44, w. 36 cm.
Letters:
4 Ligatures: 2 MA, MAE, VAN 3 ET, MAV, TAE, VAN 4 ET, IL, AE 5 ET, ELT, MI, NI, MAT, RI, VAE 6 ET 7 VA.

Text

Origin
Splonum
Province
Dalmatia
Category
Epitaph
Date
Date of origin
Dating criteria
n/a

Edition

bibliography

Mirković 1975, 99, n. 6, T. III, sl. 1 (photo); АЕ 1980, 0699; Loma 2003–2004, 44–45, n. 5 (drawing), 62, fig. 5 (photo). https://www.zotero.org/groups/370316/digital_epigraphy_in_serbia/items/collectionKey/529N23BH

Interpretive

D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum)
Macximae (!) q(uae) v(ixit) an(nis) XX
et Maustae q(uae) v(ixit) an(nis) IIII
sorori et filiae d(e)f(unctis)
5 et Celtemioni matri vivae
Surila suis et si-
bi viva p(osuit)

Diplomatic

DMS
MACXIMAE(!)QVANXX
ETMAUSTAEQVANIIII
SORORIETFILIAEDF
5ETCELTEMIONIMATRIVIVAE
SURILASUISETSI
BIVIVAP

Apparatus

3: Mustae, Mirković
5: Clemion(i), Mirković

Translation

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Commentary

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