Inscription Database

Epitaph from Aventicum (Civitas Helvetiorum) – Avenches (Germania superior)

Canonical URI:
https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD024717 (Last Updates: 2020-05-13, Osnabrügge)

Transcription Majuscle
D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) D M S
Viselliae Firmae VISELLIAE FIRMAE
Visel(lius) Firminus et VISEL FIRMINVS ET
Iulia Secunda parentes IVLIA SECVNDA PARENTES
infe(licissimi) vix(it) an(no) I dieb(us) L INFE VIX AN I DIEB L
Chronological Data:
71 AD – 130 AD
Literature:
  • AE 1990, 0769.
  • D. Castella u. a., ArchS 11, 1988, 34; Foto u. Zeichnung. - AE 1990.
  • D. Castella, in: L. Flutsch - G. Kaenel - F. Rossi (Hrsg.), Archéologie en terre vaudoise (Lausanne 2009) 154-155; Foto.
  • D. Castella, Aventicum 30, 2016, 9; Foto.
  • J. Bartels - N. Hächler - M. Aberson - R. Frei-Stolba - A. Kolb, MH 75, 2018, 95, Nr. 8.
  • R. Frei-Stolba - A. Bielmann, Musée Romain d'Avenches. Les inscriptions. Textes, traduction et commentaire (Lausanne 1996) 59-61, Nr. 13; Foto.
  • S. Oelschig, Kaleidoskop der Epigraphik. Katalog und Rekonstruktion der römischen Steininschriften von Avenches/Aventicum (Avenches 2009) Nr. 7170; Zeichnung.

IIIF Manifest

Find circumstances / present location

province:
country:
Switzerland
ancient find spot:
Aventicum (Civitas Helvetiorum)
modern find spot:
Avenches
find spot:
modern region:
Canton de Vaud
year of find:
1987
present location:
Avenches, Mus. Rom.

Type of inscription / language

type of inscription:
epitaph
language:
Latin

Type of monument

type of monument:
tabula
material:
Kalkstein
height:
40 cm
width:
65 cm
depth:
10 cm
letter size:
4-2 cm

People

Person 1
Name:
Viselliae Firmae
Nomen:
Visellia
Cognomen:
Firma
gender:
female
Age: Years:
1
Age: Days:
50
Person 2
Name:
Visel. Firminus
Nomen:
Visellius*
Cognomen:
Firminus
gender:
male
Person 3
Name:
Iulia Secunda
Nomen:
Iulia
Cognomen:
Secunda
gender:
female

General Data

HD-Nr:
HD024717
Work Status:
checked with photo
Last Update:
2020-05-13 by Osnabrügge
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