Stele with epitaph of the slave Alexander by his mother created by Fabio Spalla Imported from Epigraphic Database Roma at 2024-08-22T14:41:45, ID there: EDR111634 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL01406 283770 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/1406 Chieti, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 9101 ex A.T. 390 stele limestone complete 48.0 102.0 31.0 Stele topped by triangular pediment. At the centre of the stele, niche containing the full portrait of the deceased wearing a toga. Praescriptum inscribed on tympanum above the niche, ll. 3-18 inscibred to the right of the niche, l. 19 inscribed on base below the niche. Object / Toga Person / portrait Architecture / niche chiselled Prose + Verse + Prose Yes, by different layout No To separate words - Interpunction 2.1-3.0 Theate Marrucinorum -50--1 Theate Marrucinorum Chieti, found near the church of Santa Maria di Calvona, property of Giacomo de Rito, site of an ancient graveyard, 1880. 42.3518 14.1672 no

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Alexander

Source: EDCS-31900257
Alexander, Maraidi Sexti servus.
QuodQuot par parenti decusdequs faceret filius, mors immatura ademit ut faceret mater filio.
Alexandro.

Text follows CIL. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Alexander, slave of Sextus Maraidius. An untimely death prevented what would have been fair that the son did for the parent, so the mother had to do it for her son Alexander.

Las honras fúnebres que debió haber hecho el hijo para su madre, una muerte prematura obligó a que la madre las hiciera para su hijo.

Una morte prematura impedì quel naturale tributo che il figlio avrebbe dovuto rendere al proprio genitore, cosicché fu la madre a renderlo al proprio figlio.

Dating proposed by Buonocore (CIL).

EphEp 08, 00126 CLE 00170 SupplIt 02, 00126 CIL 09, 01, 02, 07003 (with Italian translation; also on dating) E. Diehl, Vulgärlateinische Inschriften, Bonn 1910, 142, no. 1494. M. Buonocore, G. Firpo, Fonti latine e greche per la storia dell'Abruzzo antico 1, Padova 1991, 404, no. 43. M. R. Di Mino, L. Nista, M. Buonocore, Gentes et principes. Iconografia romana in Abruzzo, Chieti 1993, 110-111, no. 39 - AE 1993 AE 1993, 00568 M. Buonocore, "Carmina latina epigraphica regionis IV augusteae". Avvio ad un censimento, Giorn. It. Filol. 49 (1997), 34, no. 18. C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 148, no. 170 (Spanish translation of ll. 3-18) M. Buonocore, L'Abruzzo e il Molise in età romana tra storia ed epigrafia, Vol. 1, L'Aquila 2002, 124, no. 2, 176, no. 18 (with photo, Vol. 2, 936, fig. 6) V. González Berdús, P. Kruschwitz, Connecting the dots: some thoughts on the spread and diffusion of recurrent Carmina Latina Epigraphica, SEBarc 21 (2023), 149, no. 1 (with English translation) https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/31900257 | EDCS-31900257 http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?do=book&id_nr=EDR111634 | EDR111634 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|0170 | MQDQ