Fragmentary epitaph from Mogontiacum created by Fabio Spalla Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:30:41, ID there: HD077744 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL01114 425418 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/1114 Mainz, Landesmuseum Mainz S 1350 stele limestone incomplete 37.0 24.0 11.0 Remain of moulded frame to the right of the inscription. Architecture / frame Architecture / Moulding chiselled Verse 2.8-3.5 Mogontiacum 1-200 Mogontiacum Found during the demolition of the Neuthor station, 1894. 49.9989 8.27387 External depot. no

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 Greek Greek-Latin Latin Multilingual Ancient Greek written in Latin script Latin written in Greek script funerary inscription

Source: EDCS-11001192 (c) © Institut für Alte Geschichte Osnabrück
q reddere patroni munera facta perveni in tenebras Ditisque ad Tartara finge ereptus trist

Text follows López Sánchez. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. l. 1: Q[---], CIL; Knebusch. l. 2: pa[trono cum], CLE; Körber; Lazzaro. pa[---], Knebusch. pa[trono(?) ---], Kruschwitz. l. 3: facta [volebam], CLE; Körber; Lazzaro. facta [---], Knebusch. facta [mihi], López Sánchez. l. 4: tene[bras], Knebusch. l. 5: Tartara [praeceps], CLE; Körber; Lazzaro. Tartara[m ---], Kruschwitz. l. 6: e [l]uce ereptus, CLE. et luce ereptus tris[tis], Körber. et luce ereptus tris[---], CIL. e«t» luce ereptus, Lazzaro. e luce ereptus tri[st---], Kruschwitz. ll. 6-7: tri[stis per funera mortis], CLE; Körber; Lazzaro.

... to return my patron's services ... I came to the Underworld ... and to the reign of Pluto ... snatched away, wretched ...

[Cuando tenía la intención] de devolver a mi patrono los favores que me había hecho, me topé con las tinieblas de la muerte, y, [precipitado] hacia el Tártaro, reino de Plutón, fui arrancado de la vida por la implacable [perdición de la muerte].

… dem Patron erstatten … gewährte Wohltaten … gelangte ich in die Schattenwelt … und in Dis’ Tartarus … aus dem Licht fortgerissen, traurig …

***devolver los favores de mi patrón, me precipité a las tinieblas y al Tártaro de Plutón *** arrancado ***

Dating proposed by Knebusch. Lazzaro proposes a dating to the 3rd century AD, based on palaeography.

CLE 01828 CIL 13, 07129 K. Körber, Römische Inschriften des Mainzer Museums. 3. Nachtrag zum Becker'schen Katalog, Mainz 1897, 204, no. 68 (with drawing) L. Lazzaro, Esclaves et affranchis en Belgique et Germanies romaines d'après les sources épigraphiques, Besançon 1993, 205, no. 221 (also on alternative dating) C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 232, no. 1828 (Spanish translation) B. Amiri, Esclaves et affranchis des Germanies: Mémoire en fragments, Stuttgart 2016, 27, no. 79, 64, no. 281, 99, no. 357, 157-158. P. Kruschwitz, Dichterische Freiheit und sklavische Unterordnung Überlegungen zur Poetik der Sklaverei in den Carmina Latina Epigraphica Germaniens, Gymnasium 125, 3 (2018), 203-204 (with German translation) - AE 2018 AE 2018, 01171 Y. López Sánchez, Carmina Latina Epigraphica Germaniarum, Seville 2024, 281-286, no. 28 (with Spanish translation and photo, 281, fig. 80) https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/11001192 | EDCS-11001192 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD077744 | HD077744 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1828 | MQDQ