Funerary inscription to Hippodamia by her husband created by Fabio Spalla MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL02083 213402 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/2083 Avignon, Musée Calvet 22348-22352 slab marble fragmentary (only partially adjoining fragments) 98.0 84.5 2.0 chiselled 2.4-2.8 Apta Iulia 301-400 Apta Iulia Apt, necropolis on the road to Forcalquier, 1946. 43.8766 5.39368 no

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Hippodamia Apolaustus

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Dis infernis memoriaeque semper habendae Hippodamiae suae constituit pignora post gemina Nata sed a matre relicta dilectae nimium gratus vir Apolaustus Comes tu qui pergis iter mane quaeso parumper Siste gressum dunc perlegens ancxia fata corpus quondam dunc vita manebat florente iuventa contraria uotis maerore parentis dilecto coniuge caro semperque rito ro forma te beata et transegit in orbes fugiens m reliquit o margine et una per aque litora visa Quo nascor morior mortem mihi vita paravit Nam partu genitam partus me tradidit umbris Hippodamia fuit nomen dunc vita manebat haec tamen extremi te Quod quae me genuit patria AtqueAdque ubi vita data est i AptaeAptenam genitam trist Hoc mihi dilecte coniux p

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To the gods of the Underworld and to keep alive the memory of his Hippodamia, her immensely thankful husband Apolaustus set up this pledge to her beloved after twins were born but were snatched away from their mother. Friend, you who haste on your journey, I beg you stay for a moment, step closer to read carefully of the troubles of which I speak. ... when life was still in her body ...flourishing youth ...against vows ...lamenting parent ...to the dear beloved consort ...blessed ...travelled the world ...running away ...left ...seen shores, when I am born I die, life set death in place for me, for when I gave birth it consigned me to the shadows. Hippodamia was her name when still alive. However, these are the last ... since the homeland that gave birth to me... and where life was given, there life was paid for. Born in Apte... My husband set up this monument for me, his beloved.

Dating proposed by AE 1973.

ILN 00032. CLE 02496. AE 1973, 00326. L. Tallah, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 84.2: Lubéron et pays d'Apt, Paris 2004, 154. J. Gascou, J. Guyon, O. Cavalier, La collection d'inscriptions gallo-grecques et latines du musée Calvet, 204, Avignon 2005. P. Cugusi, M. Sblendorio Cugusi, Carmina latina epigraphica non-Bücheleriani delle Galliae 18, Cesena 2019. https://db-edcs-eu.uaccess.univie.ac.at/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-11700756 | EDCS https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD011084 | HD011084 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|appe|0215 | MQDQ