Funerary inscription for Astania created by Mirko Tasso MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00210 339012 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/210 unknown mosaic mosaic complete 230.0 110.0 None written with mosaic tiles 16.0-16.0 Tipasa 375-425 Tipasa This floor mosaic comes from the north aisle of the local basilica. 36.5942 2.44192 no

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Astania

Hic iacet egregia meritis et gratia morum, nobilis et atavis clarissima femina magnis, heu memoranda bonis Astania dignissima caelo, concors, blanda, decens, recumen fidele suorum. Haec bona familiis, mater pia, sedula coniux, hic corpus posuit sedem dicavit in astris.

Text follows CIL 8, 20908.

Astania rests here. She was an extraordinary woman for her merits and grace of mores, as well as noble and illustrious also in comparison with the great ancestors. Oh! She has to be remembered by the good people, she who, really worthy of Heaven, was balanced, handsome, respectable, a faithful mentor of her relatives. This woman was good at her families, a pious mother, a careful wife, and albeit she posed her body here, she settled the seat in Heaven.

CIL 08, 20908 CLE 01836 ILCV 00190 M. Saint-Gérand, Une basilique funéraire a Tipasa, BCTH (1892), 466-484. L. MacCrostie Rae, A Study of Versification of the African Carmina Latina Epigrahica, Diss. British Columbia 1991, 187-188.