Funerary inscription with a dialogue from Narbonne created by Fabio Spalla MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL02162 442207 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/2162 Narbonne, Musée Narbo Via 833-232-1 slab limestone incomplete 45.0 50.5 10.5 chiselled 5.0-6.5 Narbo Martius 1-30 Narbo Martius First seen in the house of the cleric Fabre, 17th century. Then moved into the archiepiscopal palace in 1726, until it was turned into an archaeological museum. 43.1836 3.0042 Lapidarium. no

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

(c) H. Belloc
Hospitium tibi hoc. Invitus venio. Veniundum est tamen.

Text follows CIL 12 and CLE. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

- This is your abode. - I come against my will. - You must come nonetheless.

"Hier kehrst du auch einmal ein." — "Ungern komme ich." — "Und doch mußt du kommen."

Ésta es tu casa. Vengo contra mi voluntad, pero no hay más remedio que venir.

"– Esta es tu morada. – Vengo contra mi voluntad. – Sin embargo, hay que venir."

Dating proposed by O. Hirschfeld (CIL 12).

CIL 12, 05270 CLE 00242 J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 539, nr. 1328. H. Geist, Römische Grabinschriften. Gesammelt und ins Deutsche übertragen von Hieronymus Geist, betreut von Gerhard Pfohl, München 1969, 28, nr. 14 (German translation) C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 168, nr. 242 (Spanish translation) É. Dellong, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 11.1: Narbonne et le Narbonais, Paris 2003, 443, nr. 243-2 (with photo, fig. 562) A. Ortiz Gómez, La inevitabilidad de la muerte como motivo de consolatio. In: M. Limón Belén (ed.), C. Fernández Martínez (ed.), Sub Ascia. Estudios sobre Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Seville 2020, 494-497, nr. N149 (with photo, fig. 1, and Spanish translation; also on dialogical structure) - AE 2020 AE 2020, 00801 https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/n149/?lang=en | CLEO N149 (with Spanish translation) https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_edcs_id=EDCS-09302421 | EDCS-09302421 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|0242 | MQDQ