Epitaph of Mainuna by a fellow slave created by Fabio Spalla MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00779 106342 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/779 unknown stele marble complete 26.0 31.0 None chiselled 0.0-0.0 Alexandria 231-270 Alexandria Ramleh, between Sidi-Gaber and the sea, near the Roman military cemetery, 1887. 31.1982 29.9079 no

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Mainuna

Hunc habet aeternus cinis AggellonisAgcellonis honorem. Hic iacet assiduoadsiduo rapta puella loco, quam genuit tellus Maurusia, quamque coercens detinet ignoto tristis harena solo. Dis Manibus, bene merenti conservae Mainunae, annorum XXII.

Text follows CIL, Suppl. 01.

Here her eternal ashes withhold the honour of Angelos. Here lies a girl snatched away from her home, to whom the land of Mauritania gave birth, and whom miserable sand traps in unknown soil. To the Manes, to my well-deserving fellow slave Mainuna, twenty-two years of age.

Su ceniza imperecedera recibe estos honores de Agcelón: aquí yace una joven llevada lejos de su hogar, a quien engendró la tierra mauritana y una arena funesta, oprimiéndola, la retiene en suelo desconocido.

Dating porposed by Haussoullier.

D. Murzea, Femina et Carmina. Female Agency and Authorship in Roman Verse Inscriptions, Vienna 2025, p.402, no.198. CLE 01312 CIL 03, Suppl. 01, 06618 CIL 03, Suppl. 02, 14124 T. Néroutsos-Bey, Revue archéologique 1887. Nouvelles archéologiques et correspondance. Alexandrie d'Égypte, le 24 mai 1887, Rev. Arch. 10 (1887), 120, no. 1. J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 333, no. 921. C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 72, no. 1312 (Spanish translation of the elegiac couplets) J. Carbonell, M. Pena, Itala me genuit Tellus. Ideas en torno al origen del pseudo-epitafio de Virgilio. A propósito de un carmen epigraphicum de Myrtilis (Lusitania), Epigraphica 71 (2009), 282, no. 3.11. P. Cugusi, M. Sblendorio Cugusi, Carmina Latina Epigraphica delle province greco-orientali (CLEOr), Epigraphica 73 (2011), 179, no. 41. J. Velaza, Mantua me genuit: génesis, datación y modelos epigráficos del "autoepitafio" de Virgilio, Anu. Filol. Antiq. Mediaevalia 8 (2018), 884, no. 2.15. https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/28000903 | EDCS-28000903 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1312 | MQDQ