Epitaph of Valeria Crene created by Fabio Spalla Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:06:08, ID there: HD031655 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00880 223104 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/880 Málaga slab marble fragmentary (adjoining fragments) 43.5 64.0 2.5 chiselled Prose + Verse Yes, by bigger lettering in prose Yes, by vacat Yes To mark a pentameter in an elegiac couplet (indentation) To separate words - Interpunction 3.0-5.0 Urso 101-200 Urso Unknown. 37.2466 -5.09928 Private residence of the writers Maria Victoria Atencia and Rafael León. no

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Valeria Crene

Source: CLEO SE18 (c) C. Fernández Martínez
Valeria liberta Crene, annorum XL, pia in suis, hic sita est. Invida fata, quid est quod rapta, peregrino contumulata . Sex et viginti nobiscum degerat annos, casta, pia, exemplum sola . Hoc licet in saxosaxso iaceas, in pectore et in nostro fixafixsa t. Tu qui praeteriens percurris dic, precor, hoc: Crene, sit tibi terra levis.

Text follows CLEBetica. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. l. 1: Valer(ia) ?..., Recio Veganzones. l. 2: s(uos) [h(ic) s(ita)] / e(st), Recio Veganzones. l. 3: qu[od ?]..., Recio Veganzones. qu[od Crene nostra subito?], CILA. qu[od Crene nostra recessit?], CIL. qu[od Crene nostra recessit], CLEHisp; CLE. l. 4: rapt(im)...signaq(ue) commu...?, Recio Veganzones. contumu[lata solo], CILA; CIL. contumu[lata solo]?, Hernández Pérez; CLEHisp; CLE. l. 5: .......onit? vobiscum ........, Recio Veganzones. de[geret annos], CILA. l. 6: sola [perenne dedit], CILA; CIL. sola [perenne dedit] (?), CLEHisp; CLE. l. 7: hoc lict in. sam...sa? sib[i]..., Recio Veganzones. in [saecula cuncta], CILA; CIL. in [saecula cuncta (?)], CLEHisp. in [--- cuncta] (?), CLE. l. 8: se et in nostro fixa......., Recio Veganzones. fixsa [manebis item], CILA. fixsa +[---], CIL. fixsa ṭ[amen maneas], CLEHisp; CLE. l. 9: Tu qui proeteriens percurris v[iam]... vel Tu qui praeteriens percurris v[iam]..., Recio Veganzones. percurris [busta viator], CILA; CIL. percurris [carmina nostra] (?), CLE.

The freedwoman (?) Valeria Crene, lies here at the age of forty, beloved by her family. Cruel fate, what is there that ... snatched away, buried in a foreign land ... She spent twenty-six years with us, pure, devoted, she alone ... an example ... Though you lie beneath this stone ... hold you in our heart ... You who hasten through, passing by ... I beg you, say this: "Crene, may the earth be light upon you".

Valeria (Crene), de cuarenta años, querida por (los suyos, aquí está enterrada). Destino cruel, ¿qué razón hay para que (haya muerto nuestra querida Crene?). Arrebatada, enterrada en suelo extranjero, había pasado con nosotros veintiséis años. Honorada, cariñosa, ella sola (nos dio) un ejemplo (imperecedero). Aunque estés bajo esta lápida por (los siglos de los siglos), igualmente (te guardaremos) clavada en nuestro pecho. Tú que al pasar caminando por aquí observas ***, pronuncia estas palabras, te lo ruego: Crene, que no te pese la tierra.

Dating proposed by González Fernández (CILA).

CILA 02, 03, 00657 (with Spanish translation and photo, 390, fig. 390; also on dating) CIL 02 (2nd ed.), 05, 01074 C. Fernández Martínez, Carmina latina epigraphica de la Bética romana : las primeras piedras de nuestra poesía, Sevilla 2007, SE13 (with Spanish translation and photo, 96) - HEp 2005. J. Del Hoyo, Reseña a Paolo Cugusi. Carmina Latina Epigraphica Hispanica post Buechelerianam collectionem editam reperta cognita (CLEHisp). Faenza, Fratelli Lega, 2012, 252 pp., Habis 44 (2013), no. 44. CLE 02356 A. Recio Veganzones, Inscripciones romanas de la Betica: Estepa, Osuna, Martos y Porcuna, Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Giennenses 90 (1976), 95-97, no. 34. R. Atencia Paéz, Dos series epigráficas ursaonenses en Málaga, Gibralfaro. Revista del Instituto de Estudios Malagueños 29 (1978), 191-195 (with photo) R. Hernández Pérez, Poesía latina sepulcral de la Hispania romana: estudios de los tópicos y sus formulaciones, Valencia 2001, 61-62, no. 60 - HEp 2001 HEp 2001, 00461 C. Fernández Martínez, R. Carande, Elegía a Valeria Crene (CIL II/2 5, 1074). In: P. Conde Parrado (ed.), I. Velázquez Soriano (ed.), La filología latina. Mil años más, Burgos 2009, 541-548 - HEp 2005 HEp 2005, 00317 C. Fernández Martínez, De mulieribus epigraphicis. Tradición e innovación, Seville 2010, 87-96, nr. 6 (with Spanish translation and photo, 87) D. Murzea, Femina et Carmina. Female Agency and Authorship in Roman Verse Inscriptions, Vienna 2025, 446, no.250. https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/se18/?lang=es | CLEO SE18 https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/08701152 | EDCS-08701152 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD031655 | HD031655 https://hepol.uah.es/pub/record_card_1.php?rec=3316 | HEpOl 3316 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|appe|0392 | MQDQ