Epitaph of the slave Spendo by Quintus Statius Murranus created by Fabio Spalla MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL02180 437815 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/2180 Arles, Musée départemental Arles antique stele limestone complete 75.0 185.0 37.0 chiselled Prose + Verse Yes, by bigger lettering in prose Yes To separate words - Interpunction 2.0-9.2 Arelate 1-100 Arelate District of Alyscamps, outside the church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Mouleyrès, 1854. 43.6776 4.6308 Deposit. no

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Spendo Quintus Statius Murranus

Source: CLEO N044 (c) Centre Camille Jullian
Spendonti, Caii Statii PaterculiPatercli, Quintus Statius Murranus, sodali. Iam bis ut octonos SpendoSpendon compleverat annos, raptusque a fatis, conditus hoc tumulo esttumulost.

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Quintus Statius Murranus made this for his companion Spendo, slave of Caius Statius Paterculus. When Spendo had already reached twice the age of eight years and, snatched away by destiny, he was buried in this grave.

Cuando Espendón había ya cumplido los dieciséis años, fue arrebatado por el destino y está enterrado en esta tumba.

À son compagnon Spendon, (esclave) de C. Statius Paterculus. Q. Statius Murranus. Spendon avait déjà vécu (accompli) seize ans et, emporté par le destin, il a été enseveli dans ce tombeau.

Para Espendonte de Gayo Estacio Paterclo, Quinto Estacio Murrano para su compañero. Cuando ya había cumplido Espendonte dos veces ocho años, fue raptado por los hados y enterrado en este túmulo.

Dating proposed by Hirschfeld. Cholodniak proposes a dating to the reign of Trajan without criteria, while Pena narrows the date range down to the end of the 1st century AD.

CIL 12, 00882 CLE 01071 J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 304, no. 857. C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 494, no. 1071 (Spanish translation of the elegiac couplet) M. J. Pena, Sur quelques carmina epigraphica de Narbonnaise, Rev. Arch. Narb. 36, 1 (2003), 429-430, no. 2 (with French translation and photo, 429, fig. 2) - AE 2003 AE 2003, 01071 M. Rothé, M. Heijmans, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 13.5: Arles, Crau, Camargue, Paris 2008, 515. V. Cansino Arán, La mors inmatura en los CLE de Arlés. In: M. Limón Belén (ed.), C. Fernández Martínez (ed.), Sub ascia. Estudios sobre Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Seville 2020, 511-513, no. 44 (with Spanish translation and photo, 511, fig. 3) https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/n044/?lang=en | CLEO N044 (with Spanish translation) https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/08401503 | EDCS-08401503 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1071 | MQDQ