Epitaph of the baker Marcus Acilius Eros by his freedmen and freedwomen created by Fabio Spalla Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:12:03, ID there: HD039704 MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00938 231306 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/938 Madrid, Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España 16508 stele limestone incomplete 61.0 115.0 26.0 Inscription within aedicula flanked by thin columns terminating in capitals shaped as lotus flowers. Below the epigraphic field, coffered decoration restored in its lower part. Above the epigraphic field, tympanum flanked by flower motifs and kraters. On pediment, eroded bust portrait of the deceased. Architecture / Aedicula Architecture / Bust Architecture / Moulding Architecture / Pediment Architecture / Tympanum Architecture / Capital Person / head Person / man Person / portrait Plant / Flower Object / Krater Plant / Lotus chiselled Prose + Verse Yes, by bigger lettering in prose Yes, by different layout No, just uses all available space To separate words - Interpunction 2.5-6.0 Dianium 71-130 Dianium Outskirts of Almoines, found next to cinerary urns during an excavation in an olive grove, 1868. 38.8428 0.107511 no

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Marcus Acilius Eros

Source: CLEO V7 (c) Museo Arqueológico Nacional
Marcus Acilius Eros hic situs est, pistor. Liberti libertaeque faciendum curaverunt. Quisquis in has partes, quisquis percurris in illas, precor uti dicas: sit tibi terra levis.

Text follows Corell 1999 and 2012. Picture checked by Spalla 2025. l. 4: [fac(iendum)] Gómez Pallarès 2002. ll. 7-8: in [illas, te] precor ut dicas, CIL; CLE; Cholodniak. in ist[as te] precor, Gómez Pallarès 2002.

The baker Marcus Acilius Eros lies here. His freedmen and freedwomen took care of putting this up. Whoever runs by this way, whoever goes that way, I beg you to say: "May the earth by light upon you".

Tú que marchas apresurado por aquí y por allá, [te] ruego que digas: «que no te pese la tierra».

Marc Acili Eros, forner, ací és sepultat. Els seus lliberts i llibertes li erigiren (aquest monument). Tu, quisvulla que sigues, que véns o vas apressat, digues, et pregue: «que la terra et siga lleugera».

Marco Acilio Eros, panadero, está enterrado aquí, Sus libertos y libertas se han ocupado de hacerlo. Quienquiera que pases deprisa por un lado o por otro, quienquiera que seas, te pido que digas: Que la tierra te sea ligera.

Dating proposed by Corell 1999. Hübner (CIL) proposes a dating to the broad 1st century AD, based on palaeography. Gómez Pallarès 2002 proposes a dating to the end of the 1st century AD alone, also based on the absence of the Dis Manibus formula, the name in the nominative, the formula "hic situs est", and palaeography.

CIL 02 (Suppl.), 05975 (also on alternative dating) CLE 01457 ILER 05744 J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 458, no. 1219. J. Mangas Mangarrés, Esclavos y libertos en la España romana, Salamanca 1971, 357. J. Aparicio Pérez, V. Gurrea Crespo, S. Climent Mañó, Carta arqueológica de La Safor, Gandía 1983, 319. J. Corell i Vicent, Las inscripciones romanas de la Safor (Valencia), Madrid 1993, no. 8 (with photo, fig. 20) J. Gómez Pallarès, Initia de los Carmina Latina Epigraphica Hispaniae (Conventus Tarraconensis) (I), Faventia 17, 1 (1995), 85, no. V7. J. Corell, Inscripcions romanes d'Ilici, Lucentum, Allon, Dianium, i els seus territoris, València 1999, 311-313, nr. 213 (with Catalan translation and photo, 312; also on dating) C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 142, no. 1457 (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, 307. J. Gómez Pallarès, Poesia epigràfica llatina als països catalans. Edició i comentari, Barcelona 2002, 232-234, no. V8 (with Catalan translation; also on alternative dating) J. Corell, Inscripcions romanes del País Valencià, Vol. 6 (Ilici, Lucentum, Allon, Dianium, i els seus territoris), Valencia 2012, 283-285, no. 213 (with Catalan translation and photo, 284) https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/v7-ii-5975-cf-p-959-cle-1457-ee-iii-42/?lang=es | CLEO V7 (with Spanish translation) https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/05601120 | EDCS-05601120 https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD039704 | HD039704 https://hepol.uah.es/pub/record_card_1.php?rec=11850 | HEpOl 11850 https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|1457 | MQDQ