Inscriptions: Funerary inscription for Suavola

Identification

Reference as:	MPL01129
Title	Funerary inscription for Suavola
Trismegistos-No.	424851

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Andematunnum
Find Context	Unknown
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Lost
Inventory number
Current Location Details
Vicinity	[{"coords": [47.8642, 5.33521], "id": 1129, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1129", "long_id": "MPL01129", "place": "Andematunnum", "text": "------ S[ua]vola, post patron\u0323i\u0323 obitus, dile\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Suavola"}, {"coords": [47.8642, 5.33521], "id": 1128, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/1128", "long_id": "MPL01128", "place": "Andematunnum", "text": "Bert[---] hoc hordine res[---] cum petere optassem\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription by Bert[---]"}, {"coords": [48.3854, 5.48495], "id": 262, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/262", "long_id": "MPL00262", "place": "Grannum", "text": "Nolite o iuvenes [castam] ir[ru]mare puella[m---] \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Erotic inscription on brick"}, {"coords": [49.254, 4.0332], "id": 408, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/408", "long_id": "MPL00408", "place": "Reims", "text": "Hic igitur nullum lateat quid terra retentat, nec \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Attolus, Elanus and Eufrasia"}, {"coords": [49.7523, 6.64164], "id": 409, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/409", "long_id": "MPL00409", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "Quidquid (i)d est aer v[---] et quod in orb[e] vig\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Votive inscription"}, {"coords": [49.7523, 6.64164], "id": 444, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/444", "long_id": "MPL00444", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "Fragment 1 \u27e6[---]\u27e7 Sublime de se sparsit per sa\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription"}, {"coords": [49.7523, 6.64164], "id": 445, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/445", "long_id": "MPL00445", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "Iulia Pier-is obstetrix hic iacet nulli gra-5vis.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Iulia Pieris"}, {"coords": [49.7384, 6.63251], "id": 447, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/447", "long_id": "MPL00447", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) Hic fecit cla[r]o vigu[it qui] n\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Lucius Terentius Iulianus"}, {"coords": [49.7597, 6.65261], "id": 448, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/448", "long_id": "MPL00448", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "Hic Amant-iae in pace hospita c-aro iacet.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Amantia"}, {"coords": [49.7598, 6.65231], "id": 449, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/449", "long_id": "MPL00449", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "[---] Glyceria i [---] [---]ti coniunx[---] [--- s\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Glyceria"}, {"coords": [49.7384, 6.63245], "id": 450, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/450", "long_id": "MPL00450", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "------ [--- litt]e\u0323ra parva notat [--- sorte gra]\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription"}, {"coords": [49.7598, 6.65239], "id": 451, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/451", "long_id": "MPL00451", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "[---h]ic posita est clarissima femina [mater(?)] q\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for a clarissima femina"}, {"coords": [49.7598, 6.65118], "id": 452, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/452", "long_id": "MPL00452", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "Quae iacet hoc saxo maternis moribus aequacunctoru\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Boethiola"}, {"coords": [49.7627, 6.65288], "id": 453, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/453", "long_id": "MPL00453", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "[---]o tempore vit[ae] [--- p]retium [--- mort]e r\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription"}, {"coords": [49.7627, 6.65262], "id": 454, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/454", "long_id": "MPL00454", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "------ [---]S[---] [--- lacri]mis sola[cia ---]\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription"}, {"coords": [49.7546, 6.63495], "id": 455, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/455", "long_id": "MPL00455", "place": "Augusta Treverorum", "text": "------ [---]ne pulchro [---]am modo dulcis eras\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription"}, {"coords": [46.88, 7.04071], "id": 989, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/989", "long_id": "MPL00989", "place": "Aventicum", "text": "Mars Gradive pate[r---] hanc patriam cive[sque---]\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Prayer from Aventicum (Civitas Helvetiorum) \u2013 Avenches (Germania 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"text": "Iudicio te amo.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Theulegium"}, {"coords": [49.7302, 6.97849], "id": 2058, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2058", "long_id": "MPL02058", "place": "Dhronecken", "text": "Iudicio te amo.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Dhronecken"}, {"coords": [46.202, 6.1438], "id": 2060, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2060", "long_id": "MPL02060", "place": "Genava", "text": "Uror amore tuo.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Genava"}, {"coords": [46.202, 6.1438], "id": 2146, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2146", "long_id": "MPL02146", "place": "Genava", "text": "Uror amor-e tuo.", "thumbnail_url": "https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/bilder/CI/CIL_12_05698-18.jpg", "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Genava"}, {"coords": [49.4835, 5.74408], "id": 2061, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2061", "long_id": "MPL02061", "place": "Cutry", "text": "Front Haec int[e]r va[stas] stringat venabula s\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Spearhead with encouraging inscription "}, {"coords": [48.902, 4.10698], "id": 2078, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2078", "long_id": "MPL02078", "place": "Chaintrix-Bierges", "text": "Aper-i si a-mas.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Chaintrix-Bierges"}, {"coords": [48.5541, 5.0768], "id": 2080, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2080", "long_id": "MPL02080", "place": "Bayard-sur-Marne", "text": "Ave amica mea", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication Bayard-sur-Marne"}, {"coords": [48.5541, 5.0768], "id": 2096, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2096", "long_id": "MPL02096", "place": "Bayard-sur-Marne", "text": "Escipe si amas.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love 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"place": "Rippweiler", "text": "[Mis]ce sitio", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Rippweiler"}, {"coords": [49.6528, 6.14139], "id": 2109, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2109", "long_id": "MPL02109", "place": "Helmsange", "text": "Pignus amore escipe.", "thumbnail_url": "https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/bilder/Er/Eros_295.jpg", "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Helmsange"}, {"coords": [49.7503, 6.32786], "id": 2110, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2110", "long_id": "MPL02110", "place": "Altrier", "text": "Pignus amore.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Altrier"}, {"coords": [49.7503, 6.32786], "id": 2150, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2150", "long_id": "MPL02150", "place": "Altrier", "text": "Venio si das.", "thumbnail_url": "https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/bilder/In/InscrMin-409.jpg", "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Altrier"}, {"coords": [49.6275, 6.02333], "id": 2111, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2111", "long_id": "MPL02111", "place": "Mamer", "text": "Pignus amore escipe si amas.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Mamer"}, {"coords": [49.6775, 6.44022], "id": 2128, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2128", "long_id": "MPL02128", "place": "Grevenmacher", "text": "Si me amas, spes amor.", "thumbnail_url": "https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/bilder/Gr/Grevenmacher-125.jpg", "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Grevenmacher"}, {"coords": [47.4527, 6.65168], "id": 2139, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2139", "long_id": "MPL02139", "place": "Longevelle-sur-Doubs", "text": "Succurre amanti si me amas.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Longevelle-sur-Doubs"}, {"coords": [49.0, 4.86667], "id": 2144, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2144", "long_id": "MPL02144", "place": "Sivry-Ante", "text": "Tu es flos amorum.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Sivry-Ante"}, {"coords": [48.6325, 5.3866], "id": 2148, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2148", "long_id": "MPL02148", "place": "Nasium", "text": "Uror amore tuo.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Nasium"}, {"coords": [49.1295, 7.18081], "id": 2152, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2152", "long_id": "MPL02152", "place": "Bliesbruck", "text": "Vicit [---]", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Bliesbruck"}, {"coords": [48.4257, 6.07994], "id": 2178, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2178", "long_id": "MPL02178", "place": "Saxon-Sion", "text": "Ultimus hic honor est [---] saxsis quos prestare \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://musee-lorrain.nancy.fr/fileadmin/_processed_/f/1/csm_image_src_nicetius_cfdde74e43.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Nice"}, {"coords": [45.9361, 4.71819], "id": 2201, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2201", "long_id": "MPL02201", "place": "Asa Paulini", "text": "------ n\u0323av\u0323[is? fe]licies proscindens\u0323 [c. 4] [\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/bilder/AE/AE_1992_01237_1.jpg", "title": "Fragmentary epitaph of Dulciola"}, {"coords": [45.9361, 4.71819], "id": 2265, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2265", "long_id": "MPL02265", "place": "Asa Paulini", "text": "[---]SED+[---] [---]++VENI+[---] [---c]rinibus a\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/bilder/AE/AE_1992_01238.jpg", "title": "Fragmentary inscription from Asa Paulini"}]

Object Details

Object Type	unknown
Material	unknown
State of Preservation	incomplete
Dimensions	width: unknown height: unknown depth: unknown
Letter Size in cm (min)	0.0
Letter Size in cm (max)	0.0
Execution Technique	unknown
Religion	Christian

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence Verse + Prose
Scriptio Continua in verse part no
Abbreviations in verse part no
Verse Line Correspondence No

Prose Verse Presence	Verse + Prose
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	No

Text

Function	funerary inscription
Language(s)	Latin
Verse Type(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

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S[]VOLAPOSTPATRO
OBITVSDILECTAPVELL
IVDICIOCOLLECTAP[]
[]TRITABENIGN͡EA[]
5IBVSADQVEIABIDVC[---]
[]AVROQBEATALIR[---]
VTDECVITEST[---]
[]ROIVREPAREN͡TVMSE[]
LADOMISECIMOI[---]
10FI DIVISOCDIPANI[---]
CELAMARTINATELLV[]
REIANAIACESI[]
LINGONICOPREN[---]
IVPINFLOREIVVENT[---]

15[---]SIVSVITALISEVO[]
[].GGGALVMNAE(scil. FECIT)

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S[ua]vola, post patroṇị
obitus, dilecta puellạ,
iudicio collecta pị[e et]
[nu]trita benign͡e, aṛ[t-]
5ibus adque IABIDUC[---]
[l]auroq(ue) beata lir[---],
ut decuit. <IABIL> est [---]
[p]ro iure paren͡tum, se[du-]
la domi SECIMOI [---]
10FI ( vac. ) divis OCDIPANI[---]
cel<l>a Martina tellu[re]
RE IANA iaces i[n solo]
Lingonico pren[---]
IVP in flore iuvent[ae ---].

15[---]sius Vitalis, evo[c](atus)
[A]ụggg(ustorum), alumnae (scil. fecit).

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S[ua]vola, post patroṇị obitus, dilecta puellạ,
iudicio collecta pị[e et nu]trita benign͡e,
aṛ[t]ibus adque IABIDUC[--- l]auroq(ue) beata
lir[---], ut decuit. <IABIL> est [--- p]ro iure paren͡tum,
se[du]la domi SECIMOI [---]FI ( vac. ) divis OCDIPANI[---]
cel<l>a Martina tellu[re] RE IANA iaces i[n solo]
Lingonico pren[---]IVP in flore iuvent[ae ---].

[---]sius Vitalis, evo[c](atus) [A]ụggg(ustorum), alumnae (scil. fecit).

Apparatus

l.2 obitus orig., reg. obitum

Text follows López Sánchez.
l. 1: S..uola, Engström. Sevola, CLE. S[e]vola, Lazzaro. S[ua]vola (?), Le Bohec. S[ae]vola, CIL; ILCV; González Berdús.
l. 2: obitum, CIL; Engström; CLE; ILCV; Lazzaro; Joly; Le Bohec; Brancato; González Berdús.
l. 3: p[io], Engström. p[ari], CLE; González Berdús. piet(atits), Lazzaro. p[...], Le Bohec.
ll. 4-5: Trita et Vitalis / alumnae, Engström; CIL; CLE; ILCV; Lazzaro; Joly; Le Bohec; Brancato; González Berdús.

Main Translation

Translation	... Suavola, after the death of her patron, beloved girl, according to his decision, was dutifully welcomed and generously brought up, for her nature ... and blessed with laurel ... as is proper ... for the sake of her parent, diligent at home ... the gods ... the chamber of the temple of Mars. In the land ... you lie in Lingonian soil ... in the flower of youth ... Vitalis, veteran of the emperors, made this for his foster-daughter.
Citation	Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

*** Sévola, una muchacha querida después de la muerte de su patrón, acogida con el mismo aprecio. Trita y Vidal a su pupila. (Spanish, C. Fernández Martínez)
... Suavola (?). Après la mort de son patron, fillette chérie pour son bon sens, modeste, elle ... Trita et Vitalis (ont fait faire ce monument funéraire) pour leur pupille. (French , Y. Le Bohec)
Suávola, querida muchacha, tras la muerte de su patrón acogida con [igual] estima. Trita y Vidal a su pupila. (Spanish, V. González Berdús)
*** Suavola, tras la muerte de su patrón, querida muchacha, a causa del testamento acogida piadosamente y criada benignamente *** laurel, buena ***, como es propio ***. *** es *** ante la naturaleza de sus padres, diligente en casa *** divinos/as*** templo de Marte. En tierra *** yaces, en *** Lingonico *** en la flor de la juventud. ***sio Vital, convocado de los Augustos, para su alumna. (Spanish, Y. López Sánchez)

Prosopographical Information

Name Suavola
Gender Female
Role Dedicatee
Name Vitalis
Gender Male
Profession Military staff
Role Dedicator

Name	Suavola
Gender	Female
Role	Dedicatee

Name	Vitalis
Gender	Male
Profession	Military staff
Role	Dedicator

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by López Sánchez, based on the title of evocatus Augustorum.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	201 AD
Date (To)	400 AD
Date (Criteria)	names history

Bibliography

CIL 13, 05855
CLE 02015
ILCV 02, 04827a
E. Engström, Carmina Latina Epigraphica (post editionem Buechelerianam in luce prolata), Gothenburg-Leipzig 1912, 78, no. 250. 🔗 link
G. L. Drioux, Cultes indigènes des Lingons. Essai sur les traditions religieuses d'une cité gallo-romaine avant le triomphe du Christianisme, Paris 1934, 105, no. 512. 🔗 link
E. Frézouls, Les villes antiques de la France, Vol. 2. Germanie Supérieure, 1: Besançon, Dijon, Langres, Mandeure, Strasbourg 1988, 336, 339. 🔗 link
L. Lazzaro, Esclaves et affranchis en Belgique et Germanies romaines d'après les sources épigraphiques, Besançon 1993, 157-158, no. 139. 🔗 link
C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 290, no. 2015 (Spanish translation of ll. 1-5) 🔗 link
M. Joly, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 52.2: Langres, Paris 2001, 140. 🔗 link
Y. Le Bohec, Inscriptions de la cité des Lingons. Inscriptions sur pierre, Paris 2003, 308, no. 549 (with French translation of ll. 1-5) 🔗 link
N. Brancato, Una componente trasversale nella società romana: gli alumni. Inscriptiones latinae ad alumnos pertinentes commentariumque, Roma 2015, 26-27, no. 43. 🔗 link
B. Amiri, Esclaves et affranchis des Germanies: Mémoire en fragments, Stuttgart 2016, 27, no. 79, 31, no. 95, 64, no. 281, 157. 🔗 link
V. González Berdús, Carmina Latina Epigraphica de la Galia Bélgica. Edición y estudio, Sevilla 2019, 259-262, nr. 32 (with Spanish translation of ll. 1-5) 🔗 link
Y. López Sánchez, Carmina Latina Epigraphica Germaniarum, Seville 2024, 305-317, no. 31 (with Spanish translation and photos of drawing and facsimile, 305-306, figg. 88-91) 🔗 link
EDCS-10801268 🔗 link
HD082117 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

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Editing History

Created	2026-08-28, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status	Complete
Import Notice	Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:32:20, ID there: HD082117

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