Epitaph of the slave Graeca by her husband Iacchus and an anonymous dedicator created by Fabio Spalla Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T11:59:24, ID there: HD003224 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00813 222201 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/813 Castro del Río, Pósito Municipal stele limestone incomplete 22.0 49.0 10.0 chiselled Verse + Prose Yes, by vacat No, just uses all available space To separate words - Interpunction 1.5-4.0 Soricaria 1-30 Soricaria Between Baño street and Garci Pérez street, reused as tile in the yard of a private house, 1978. 37.6886 -4.4796 no

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Graeca Iacchus

Source: CLEO CO3 (c) A. U. Stylow (CIL 02 [2nd ed.])
Te, lapis, obtestor, leviter super ossa residas, ne nostro doleat conditus officio. Graeca serva hic sita est. Vale. Iacchus vir et de suo dederunt.

Text follows CIL 02 (2nd ed.). Picture checked by Spalla 2025. l. 11: d(at), CIL 02 (2nd ed.). d(ederunt), CLEBetica. d(edit), CLEHisp.

I beg you, stone, to press down gently on her bones, so that she may not suffer any pain, buried here for our duty. The slave Graeca lies here. Farewell! Her husband Iacchus and ... made this at their own expense.

Te ruego, lápida, que te dejes caer suavemente sobre sus huesos; que por nuestro empeño no sufra una vez enterrado. Graeca, esclava, aquí está enterrada. Adiós. Iacco, tu compañero y *** lo hizo (hicieron) a sus expensas.

Dating proposed by Stylow (CIL 02 [2nd ed.]). Puerta and Stylow, Camacho Cruz, Fernández Martínez and Carande Herrero (CLEBetica), and AE 1985 propose a broad dating to the 1st century AD, based on palaeography and formulaic parallels.

CIL 02, 01580 CLE 01474 (adn.) CIL 02 (2nd ed.), 00399 (with photo; also on dating) CLEBetica CO14 (with Spanish translation and photos, 69-70; also on alternative dating) CLEHisp 00039 C. Puerta, A. U. Stylow, Inscripciones romanas del sureste de la provincia de Córdoba, Gerion 3 (1985), 319-323 (with photo, 321, fig. 2; also on alternative dating) - AE 1985 AE 1985, 00561 (also on alternative dating) C. Camacho Cruz, Esclavitud en los Conventus Cordubensis y Astigitanus. Testimonios epigráficos, Mem. Hist. Ant. 18 (1997), 136-137 (with Spanish translation; also on alternative dating) C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 146, nr. 1474 (Spanish translation of the elegiac couplet) R. Hernández Pérez, Poesía latina sepulcral de la Hispania romana: estudios de los tópicos y sus formulaciones, Valencia 2001, 243, nr. 250c M. Massaro, Te, lapis, obtestor... Le vicende di un distico sepolcrale. In: A. Pistellato (ed.), Memoria poetica e poesia della memoria. La versificazione epigrafica dall'antichità all'umanesimo, Venice 2014, 65-66 (with Italian translation of the elegiac couplet) https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/858/?ant=857&lang=en | CLEO CO3 https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/08700420 | EDCS-08700420 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD003224 | HD003224 https://hepol.uah.es/pub/record_card_1.php?rec=2300 | HEpOl 2300 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1474 | MQDQ