Epitaph of Festus created by Fabio Spalla Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:00:14, ID there: HD009235 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00821 223746 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/821 Córdoba, in situ block marble incomplete 116.0 26.5 50.0 chiselled Verse Yes To separate words - Interpunction 3.5-4.0 Corduba 171-230 Corduba Quarter of the Judería, calle Deanes, found during foundation works for the restaurant "El Caballo Rojo", 1970. 37.8847 -4.77917 Reused in the northern wall of one of the patios. no

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Festus

Source: CLEO CO15 (c) A. U. Stylow
noverat unum t et pia nutrix coepit et unus a fiant mater habebit.
Sum genere Macedon, sedset in arvis Baeticae partus. Quintus post deceimum revolutus fugerat annus, et iam iamque viro toga se sociare parabat. Deficiunt fata, totus labor excidit hora. Hic ego sum positus festus de nomine Festi.

Text follows CLEBetica. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. l. 2: [---]ạt, CIL. l. 5: ...ater, Mellado and Vila. l. 7: decimum, Mellado and Vila; AE 1972; CIL; Gómez Pallarès; CLEHisp; Mellado Rodríguez; CLE.

Column A: ... only knew ... and his devoted wetnurse ... began, and he alone ... happen ... his mother will have. Column B: I am a Macedonian by stock, but was born in the fields of Baetica. My fifth year had passed, slipping away after the tenth, and the toga was just ready to join me in my manhood. Destiny deserts me, all trouble disappears in a moment. I lie here, joyous as by my name Festus.

A. *...* Sólo lo conocía a él. *...* también su piadosa nodriza*... *empezó y sólo él*...* ocurran*...* lo tendrá su madre. B. Soy macedonio de origen, pero nacido en los campos de la Bética. Mi decimoquinto año, ya transcurrido, se había marchado, y la toga estaba a punto de asociarse a mí, hecho ya un hombre varón. Me abandonan los hados; todo el esfuerzo se ha desvanecido en un momento. Aquí estoy yo enterrado, feliz de acuerdo a mi nombre: "Festo".

Dating proposed by Stylow (CIL). Thigpen proposes an earlist dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD, based on metrical features and the reference to Festus' Macedonian origins.

CIL 02 (2nd ed.), 07, 00389 (with photo, tab. 14, fig.6; also on dating) CLEBEtica CO3 (with Spanish translation and photos, 144) CLEHisp 00027 CLE 02339 J. Mellado, J. M. Vila, Una inscripcion romana hallada en Córdoba, Habis 3 (1972), 321-324 (with Spanish translation) - AE 1972 AE 1972, 00276 (Column B), 00277 (Column A) E. W. Haley, Foreigners in Roman imperial Spain: investigations of geographical mobility in the Spanish provinces of the Roman Empire 30 B.C.-A.D. 284, New York 1986, 154. J. B. Thigpen, A literary analysis of Latin epitaphs from Roman Spain which contain creative biographical discourse, Chapel Hill 1995, 88-91, no. 14 (with English translation of Column B; also on alternative dating) R. Hernández Pérez, Poesía latina sepulcral de la Hispania romana: estudios de los tópicos y sus formulaciones, Valencia 2001, 8-10, 56-57, 191. J. Gómez Pallarès, Humor "negro": el diálogo entre vivos y muertos en la poesía epigráfica latina, Exemplaria classica. Journal of classical philology 11 (2007), 177-178. S. Medina Quintana, Mujeres y economía en la Hispania romana. Oficios, riqueza y promoción social, Oviedo 2014, 88. J. Mellado Rodríguez, Acerca del epitafio latino de El Caballo Rojo, Boletín de la Real Academia de Córdoba 166 (2017), 273-288 (with Spanish translation of Column B and photos, 284, fig. 1, 287, fig. 5) https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/co15-cil-ii2-7-389/?lang=es | CLEO CO15 https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/09000410 | EDCS-09000410 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD009235 | HD009235 https://hepol.uah.es/pub/record_card_1.php?rec=3970 | HEpOl 3970 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|appe|0222 | MQDQ