<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-model href="http://epidoc.stoa.org/schema/latest/tei-epidoc.rng" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>
<?xml-model href="http://epidoc.stoa.org/schema/latest/tei-epidoc.rng" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="en">
    <teiHeader>
        <fileDesc>
            <titleStmt>
                <title>Epitaph of Secundilla</title>
                <respStmt>
                    <resp>created by</resp>
                    <name>Fabio Spalla</name>
                    <note></note>
                </respStmt>
            </titleStmt>
            <publicationStmt>
                <authority>MAPPOLA Database</authority>
                <availability>
                    <licence target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
                    </licence>
                </availability>
                <idno type="localID">MPL02192</idno>
                <idno type="TM">968018</idno>
                <idno type="URI">https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/2192</idno>
            </publicationStmt>
            <sourceDesc>
                <msDesc>
                    <msIdentifier>
                        <repository>Lost</repository>
                        <idno></idno>
                    </msIdentifier>
                    <physDesc>
                        <objectDesc>
                            <supportDesc>
                                <support>
                                    <objectType ref="https://www.eagle-network.eu/voc/objtyp/lod/214">sarcophagus</objectType>
                                    <material ref="https://www.eagle-network.eu/voc/material/lod/48">marble</material>
                                    <rs type="statPreserv">complete?</rs>
                                    <dimensions unit="cm">
                                        <width>None</width>
                                        <height>None</height>
                                        <depth>None</depth>
                                    </dimensions>
                                    
                                    
                                </support>
                            </supportDesc>
                            <layoutDesc>
                                <layout>
                                    <rs type="execution" ref="https://www.eagle-network.eu/voc/writing/lod/1">chiselled</rs>
                                    
                                </layout>
                            </layoutDesc>
                        </objectDesc>
                        <handDesc>
                            <handNote>
                                <dimensions>
                                    <height unit="cm">0.0-0.0</height>
                                </dimensions>
                            </handNote>
                        </handDesc>
                    </physDesc>
                    <history>
                        <origin>
                            <origPlace>
                                <placeName type="ancient"
                                    ref="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148217">
                                    Arelate
                                </placeName>
                            </origPlace>
                            <origDate notBefore-custom="0201" notAfter-custom="0300"
                                datingMethod="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar"
                                evidence="language">201-300</origDate>
                        </origin>
                        <provenance type="found">
                            <placeName type="ancient"
                                ref="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148217">
                                Arelate
                            </placeName>
                            <placeName type="findspot">Necropolis of Alyscamps, 1547.</placeName>
                            <geo>43.6776 4.6308</geo>
                        </provenance>
                        <provenance type="observed"></provenance>
                        <provenance type="observed" subtype="squeeze-taken">no</provenance>
                    </history>
                </msDesc>
            </sourceDesc>
        </fileDesc>
        <encodingDesc>
            <p>Encoded following EpiDoc guidelines 9.5</p>
        </encodingDesc>
        <profileDesc>
            <langUsage>
                <language ident="grc">Greek</language>
                <language ident="grc-la">Greek-Latin</language>
                <language ident="la">Latin</language>
                <language ident="mul">Multilingual</language>
                <language ident="grc-Latn">Ancient Greek written in Latin script</language>
                <language ident="la-Grek">Latin written in Greek script</language>
            </langUsage>
            <textClass>
                <keywords>
                    <term ref="https://www.eagle-network.eu/voc/typeins/lod/92">funerary inscription</term>
                </keywords>
            </textClass>
            <particDesc>
                <p>
                    <listPerson>
                        <person gender="Female" age="0-12" role="Dedicatee">
                            <persName>
                                <name>Secundilla</name>
                            </persName>
                        </person>
                        
                    </listPerson>
                </p>
            </particDesc>
        </profileDesc>
        <revisionDesc>
            <change when="2025-07-15T08:25:56" who="Fabio Spalla"></change>
            <change when="2025-07-15T09:09:32" who="Fabio Spalla"></change>
            <change when="2025-07-15T09:11:33" who="Fabio Spalla"></change>
            <change when="2025-07-16T18:46:00" who="Chiara Cenati"></change>
            <change when="2025-07-17T09:24:20" who="Fabio Spalla"></change>
            <change when="2025-07-17T09:26:34" who="Fabio Spalla"></change>
            <change when="2025-08-06T10:48:02" who="Chiara Cenati"></change>
            <change when="2026-09-04T08:07:43" who="Anna Martelli"></change>
            <change when="2026-09-04T08:08:57" who="Anna Martelli"></change>
            
        </revisionDesc>
    </teiHeader>
    <facsimile>
        
        <graphic url="#" />
        
    </facsimile>
    <text>
        <body>
            <div type="edition" xml:space="preserve" xml:lang="grc-la">
                <ab>
<div type="textpart" xml:lang="la">
<lg met="dactylic.hexameter" ana="nonstandard">
<l met="dactylic.hexameter" ana="nonstandard"><lb n="1"/>Iacet sub hoc signino dulcissima Secundilla,</l>
<l met="dactylic.hexameter" ana="nonstandard"><lb n="2"/><choice><reg>quae</reg><orig>que</orig></choice> rapta parentibus reliquit dolorem,</l>
<l met="dactylic.hexameter" ana="nonstandard"><lb n="3"/>ut <choice><reg>tam dulcis</reg><orig>tandulcis</orig></choice> erat <choice><reg>tamquam</reg><orig>tanquam</orig></choice> aromata,</l>
<l met="dactylic.hexameter" ana="nonstandard"><lb n="4"/>desiderando semper mellea<supplied reason="omitted">m</supplied> vita<supplied reason="omitted">m</supplied>.</l>
</lg></div></ab>
<ab type="postscriptum">
<div type="textpart" xml:lang="la">
<lb n="5"/><choice><reg>Quae</reg><orig>Que</orig></choice> vixit annis <num value="3">III</num>, <expan><abbr>men</abbr><ex>sibus</ex></expan> <num value="6">VI</num>, <expan><abbr>die</abbr><ex>bus</ex></expan> <num value="16">XVI</num>.</div>
<div type="textpart" xml:lang="grc">
<lb n="6"/>Ἀρωμάτι ταῦτα.</div>
</ab>
            </div>
            <div type="apparatus">
                <p>Text follows CIL 12.
l. 6: Ἀρωμάτι, Latin genitive from Ἀρωμάτιον, CIL; Rodríguez-Pantoja. Dative of Ἄρωμα, IGF; Belloc (CLEO); Cenati.</p>
            </div>
            
            <div type="translation" xml:lang="en" resp="Fabio Spalla">
                <p>Below this small image lies the very sweet Secundilla, who, snatched away from her parents, left sorrow behind, for she was as sweet as spices, always longing for a life as sweet as honey.

She lived for three years, six months and sixteen days. This is for my sweet fragrant flower.</p>
            </div>
            
            <div type="translation" xml:lang="Spanish" resp="M. Rodríguez-Pantoja">
                <p>Yace bajo esta pequeña fgura la dulcísima Secundila, que arrebatada a sus padres gran dolor ha dejado, porque era tan dulce igual que los aromas, deseando una vida siempre melosa. La cual vivió 3 años, 6 meses y 16 días. Esto (es) de Ἀρωμάτιον.</p>
            </div>
            <div type="translation" xml:lang="Spanish" resp="H. Belloc">
                <p>Debajo de esta figurilla yace la dulce Secundilla, la que, arrebata a sus padres, dejó dolor puesto que era tan dulce como las hierbas aromáticas. Deseando siempre la meliflua vida la que vivió tres años, seis meses, dieciséis días. Esto para mi flor aromática.</p>
            </div>
            <div type="translation" xml:lang="Italian" resp="C. Cenati">
                <p>Sotto questo monumento giace la dolcissima Secundilla. Quando la morte la strappò ai genitori, lasciò dietro di sé solo dolore. Era gradevole come le erbe aromatiche e desiderava una vita sempre dolce come il miele. Visse 3 anni, 6 mesi e 16 giorni. Ad Aromation. C&#39;est la vie.</p>
            </div>
            
            <div type="commentary">
                <p>Dating proposed by Belloc (CLEO). IGF proposes a general dating to the late imperial period, though without criteria.</p>
            </div>
            <div type="bibliography">
                <listBibl>
                    <bibl>CIl 12, 00874</bibl>
                    <bibl>IG 14, 02475</bibl>
                    <bibl>CLE 01851</bibl>
                    <bibl>IGF 00057</bibl>
                    <bibl>J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina, Petersburg 1897, 558, no. 1386.</bibl>
                    <bibl>M. Rothé, M. Heijmans, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 13.5: Arles, Crau, Camargue, Paris 2008, 573.</bibl>
                    <bibl>C. Fernández Martínez, CIL XIII 2180 y AE 2006, 820: magnam enim partem ex iambis nostra constat oratio, Anu. Filol. Antiq. Mediaevalia 8 (2018), 303.</bibl>
                    <bibl>M. Rodríguez-Pantoja, CLE 1851d y 1072; otras lecturas, nuevas traducciones, Stud. Philol. Val. 2 (2021), 352-356 (with Spanish translation)</bibl>
                    <bibl>C. Cenati, Latino. Cultura e lingua alle radici dell&#39;Occidente. La memoria, Milano 2025, 71 (with Italian translation)</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/n054/?lang=en | CLEO N054 (with Spanish translation; also on dating)</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/08401495 | EDCS-08401495</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|appe|0899 | MQDQ</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/143293 | PHI143293</bibl>
                    
                </listBibl>
            </div>
        </body>
    </text>
</TEI>