The Inscription of Peregrina
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
- Type
- Frontal tablet of the sarcophagus.
- Material(s)
- Limestone.
- Execution
- Inscribed.
- Dimensions
- 41 × 113.5 cm
- Epigraphic Field
- 32 × 96 cm
- Letters Height
- 4.5-5 cm
Palaeographic comment
Dextrograde direction, horizontal layout, vertical module, ductus regular, no punctuation, shallow incision, alignment to the left.
A with slightly oblique crossbar, ascending to the right.
B laterally compressed.
E laterally compressed with short arms.
M sometimes with oblique lateral strokes (line 3).
N sometimes with oblique lateral strokes (line 4).
P with high bowl, occupying almost the entire body of the letter.
R with high bowl, short leg, and shallow stroke.
Q wide and rounded, with the tail contained within the body of the letter.
INSCRIPTION
INTERPRETATIVE TRANSCRIPTION
Peregrina, arcam ex pro
=
prio suo conparavit (!), in qua se
poni praecepit adque <litteras> nominis
sui conscribi iussit.
APPARATUS CRITICUS
1. VATERIA, Bertolini 1874a; VALERIA,
CIL V 8774, ILCV 849, Lettich 1983
.
3.
Bertolini 1874a, Bertolini 1874b,
CIL V 8774, ILCV 849
.
TRANSLATION
Valeria Peregrina purchased the arca with her own funds, in which she ordered to be placed and instructed that (the letters?) of her name be inscribed.
PEOPLE
Valeria Peregrina
- NOMEN
- Valeria
- COGNOMEN
- Peregrina
- GENS
- Valeria
- ORIGIN (of the name Peregrina)
- latin
- GENDER
- female
- OCCUPATION
- civilian
- ROLE
- dedicator/deceased
Bibliography
| Bertolini 1874a, 23, nr. 7. |
| Bertolini 1874b, 293, nr. 17. |
| CIL V 8774 |
| ILCV 849 |
| Lettich 1983, 105, nr. 76. |
- EDR
-
EDR097922
- Author of the record:
- Damiana Baldassarra
- Date:
- 29-11-2007
COMMENTARY
Lettich doubts that peregrina is an adjective, since if Valeria had been a foreigner, she would probably have specified her place of origin; moreover, already in the early Imperial period there existed a freedwoman named Peregrina(SupplIt 414; Lettich 1994, 139.).
It is unclear whether a term governing the genitive nominis / sui is missing; Lettich suggests litteras, but the lack of examples of a similar formula in the Concordian inscriptions makes it impossible to emend the inscription.