IDR III/1, 173 = CIL III 3247 (CIL III 8003)

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Denumirea piesei:

Funerary star (partially preserved);

Material, technology:

conglomerate sandstone, green stone, stylized carved and inscribed;

State of preservation:

fragmented into 2 pieces, the surface in the border area is partially destroyed;

Dimensions:

107 x 80 x 17 cm, h (letters) = 6.5 - 7 cm;

Description:

in the upper register, rendered in a niche, appears stylized carved a crown with ribbons or the bust of the deceased, the border at the top forms 3 arches;

Inscription:

D (is) M (anibus) / Terra te - / net corpus no - / men lapis atque / animam aer qu - / am melius fuer - /… .. stone, and the soul is in the air, how much better it would have been…

Place of discovery:

found in a secondary position reused in the wall of an 18th century military construction in Caransebeș, most likely brought from Tibiscum;

Observations, dating:

the text has philosophical, stoic values and a poetic, elegiac character;

Place of storage:

Banat National Museum Timisoara, inv. No .: IV 7497;

Bibliography and databases:

Doina Benea, Petru Bona, Tibiscum, Ed. Museion, Bucharest, 1994; Ana-Maria Sămărghițan, Funerary Poetry in Dacia, in Funerararia dacoromana (coord. Mihai Bărbulescu), Cluj University Press Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2003, pp. 175-176; UEL 17552; HD 0465668; CLE 01207

Înapoi la lapidarium