Epitaph of Nice created by Fabio Spalla MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL02178 461937 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/2178 Nancy, Musée Lorraine D.2013.1.1 slab limestone incomplete 35.0 27.5 3.3 chiselled Verse No To separate verses - Interpunctions To separate words - Interpunction 2.7-3.0 401-500 Saxon-Sion Hill of Sion-Vaudémont, near the basilica of Notre-Dame, 1868-1869. 48.4257 6.07994 Depot of the Meurthe-et-Moselle Departmental Council. no

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Nice

(c) Musée Lorraine
Ultimus hic honor est saxissaxsis quos praestareprestare do cura parentis. Nice tumulo requiescit in isto caelo devota mente re servare quaerit cert multo cu

Text follows RICG. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. l. 1: siilimus hic honores t..., de Barthélemy; honor est [datus his tibi], Thédenat; honor est [titulos inscribere], CLE. l. 2: pr(a)estare [debet miseran]do, Thédenat; prestare [potes inopes mo]do, CLE. l. 3: nici..., de Barthélemy. ll. 3-4: Nice[tio, qui nunc tu]mulo, Thédenat; Nice [nata mihi tu]mulo, CLE. l. 4: mul ore quiescit, de Barthélemy; [quae quoniam] caelo devota mente re[cessit], CLE. ll. 4-5: [Cum Christo in] caelo devota mente re[surget], Thédenat. ll. 5-6: [Praemia] servari quaerit cert[aminis.....]??, Thédenat. l. 6: servare querit certa..., de Barthélemy. ll. 6-7: [hic ad]servari quaerit cert[e pater ossa] or [nomen] servari quaerit cert[e hic sibi semper dulce pater], CLE. l. 7: merito cc..., de Barthélemy; ..... multo cu[m.....], Thédenat; [quae sepelit] multo cu[m fletu funera questus], CLE.

This is the last honour ... on stone that a father's care can offer. Nice ... rests in this tomb ... in heaven for her righteous nature ... seeks to preserve ... much ...

[Grabar] en piedra esta [inscripción] es el último tributo que el cuidado [impotente] de un padre [puede] ya ofrecer. Nice, [mi] querida [hija], descansa en esta tumba, y, [puesto que] ya reposa en el cielo por su conducta piadosa, su [padre] quiso conservar [aquí] sus [restos mortales enterrándolos] y [lamentando su muerte con llanto] abundante.

Dating proposed by Hirschfeld and Zangemeister.

CLE 01833 CIL 13, 04733 ILCV 02, 03416 RICG 01, 00258 (with photo) M. de Barthélemy, Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France. Séance du 14 Novembre, Bull. Soc. Ant. Fr. (1883), 273. H. Thédenat, Note sur une inscription chrétienne trouvée a Vaudémont (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Mém. Soc. Ant. Fr. 53 (1893), 223-232 (with photo, 225, tab. 53.15) C. Guyot, Inscription chrétienne trouvée a Vaudémont, Journal de la Société d'archéologie et du Comité du Musée lorrain 1 44 (1895), 44-47 (with photo) T. Didrit, La montagne de Sion-Vaudémont et son sanctuaire, Mémoires de la Société d'archéologie lorraine 49 (1899), 129, n. 3. C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 234, nr. 1833 (Spanish translation) G. Hamm, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 54 : La Meurthe-et-Moselle, Paris 2004, 350, nr. 497. https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/10601697 | EDCS-10601697 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1833 | MQDQ