Inscriptions: Funerary inscription by a husband to his wife

Identification

Reference as:	MPL02090
Title	Funerary inscription by a husband to his wife
Trismegistos-No.	448157

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Narbo Martius
Find Context	Narbonne, 1901. Two adjoining fragments. Right-hand fragment lost at unknown time.
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Narbonne, Musée Lapidaire Lamourguier
Inventory number	199
Current Location Details	Église Notre-Dame de Lamourguier, lapidarium.
Vicinity	[{"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2090, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2090", "long_id": "MPL02090", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "Tu, coniux miserande, duas quoi funere plagas Obt\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db-edcs-eu.uaccess.univie.ac.at/epigr/bilder/$ILGN_00579.jpg", "title": "Funerary inscription by a husband to his wife"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2063, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2063", "long_id": "MPL02063", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "Part A: C\u0323(aius) Of\u0323[illi]u\u0323s\u0323 C(ai) l(ibertus) \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$CIL_12_05026.jpg", "title": "Funerary inscription by C. Ofillius to himself, his wife, and his son"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2064, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2064", "long_id": "MPL02064", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "[M]ortua cum fueris, fati quod lege necessest, Vst\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$CIL_12_05271.jpg", "title": "Funerary inscription to unknown dedicatee"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2162, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2162", "long_id": "MPL02162", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "Hospitium tibi hoc. Invitus venio. Veniundum 5est \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/N149.jpg", "title": "Funerary inscription with a dialogue from Narbonne"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2164, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2164", "long_id": "MPL02164", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "Nec iussa testamento neque voce rogata, sed pia 5p\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/N135.jpg", "title": "Funerary inscription from Narbo Martius"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2166, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2166", "long_id": "MPL02166", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "[Sic] tibi praeterito redeat felicior annus [sem]p\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription from Narbo Martius"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2167, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2167", "long_id": "MPL02167", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "------ usta igni f\u0323idissumus atro corpora quae ra\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/N136.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of unknown children by their parents"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2171, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2171", "long_id": "MPL02171", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "L(uci) Octavi Silvan\u0361e, bene\u0323 quiescas. Mater \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/N145.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Lucius Octavius Silvanus by his mother"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2173, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2173", "long_id": "MPL02173", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "Vinicia M(arci) l(iberta) Donata. Mac\u0323[e]r\u0323i\u0323\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$CIL_12_05244.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Vinicia Donata"}, {"coords": [43.1836, 3.0042], "id": 2174, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2174", "long_id": "MPL02174", "place": "Narbo Martius", "text": "M(arcus) Careieus M(arci) l(ibertus) Asisa\u0323 p\u0323is[t\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$ILGN_00583.jpg", "title": "Epitaph by the baker Marcus Careieus Asisa for his wife and daughter"}, {"coords": [43.6776, 4.6308], "id": 29, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/29", "long_id": "MPL00029", "place": "Arelate", "text": "Aeliae Aelia[nae.] Littera qui nosti, lege casum\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Ensemble-1.jpg", "title": "Funerary inscription for Aelia Aeliana"}, {"coords": [43.6776, 4.6308], "id": 2161, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2161", "long_id": "MPL02161", "place": "Arelate", "text": "[Caec]i\u0323[lio] N\u0323igro fa[br](o) [nav(ali)]. [Pr\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stele-scaled.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the faber navalis Caecilius Niger"}, {"coords": [43.6776, 4.6308], "id": 2175, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2175", "long_id": "MPL02175", "place": "Arelate", "text": "Flebile opus matris. Natorum h\u003ci\u003ec ossa duorum con\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Memmia-1.jpg", "title": "Epitaph by Memmia Paramone to her son and daughter"}, {"coords": [43.8432, 4.35418], "id": 50, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/50", "long_id": "MPL00050", "place": "Nemausus", "text": "Hoc monimentum maesoleumque mo-nimentorum caus{s}a\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary monument of Hostilia"}, {"coords": [41.7845, 1.29031], "id": 827, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/827", "long_id": "MPL00827", "place": "Iesso", "text": "Servilla Praepusa filiae suae Lesbiae a(nnorum) XI\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Iesso \u2013 Guissona (Hispania citerior) - HD014123"}, {"coords": [41.1849, 1.20999], "id": 828, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/828", "long_id": "MPL00828", "place": "Tarraco", "text": "Ornate ea qu(a)e linqu[it specio]se vit[ae] suae r\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Tarraco \u2013 Tarragona (Hispania citerior) - HD014575"}, {"coords": [41.1849, 1.20999], "id": 961, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/961", "long_id": "MPL00961", "place": "Tarraco", "text": "Aspice quam subito marcet quod floruit ante aspice\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Tarraco \u2013 Tarragona (Hispania citerior) - HD046493"}, {"coords": [41.1849, 1.20999], "id": 967, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/967", "long_id": "MPL00967", "place": "Tarraco", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) Aurel(iae) Paulinae filiae. O cru-\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/t11.jpg", "title": "Funerary inscription for Aurelia Paulina"}, {"coords": [41.1849, 1.20999], "id": 973, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/973", "long_id": "MPL00973", "place": "Tarraco", "text": "Optime magnarum [antistes] cui maxima reru[m est] \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Tarraco \u2013 Tarragona (Hispania citerior) - HD050135"}, {"coords": [41.3888, 2.15899], "id": 979, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/979", "long_id": "MPL00979", "place": "Barcino", "text": "[Ni]grinus X[---annorum] caeliti co[etu dignus] to\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Barcino \u2013 Barcelona (Hispania citerior) - HD050807"}, {"coords": [41.3888, 2.15899], "id": 980, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/980", "long_id": "MPL00980", "place": "Barcino", "text": "[Levis te vehat] unda et rade po[ntum magnum]", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Barcino \u2013 Barcelona (Hispania citerior) - HD050808"}, {"coords": [41.5347, 2.08222], "id": 944, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/944", "long_id": "MPL00944", "place": "Sant Quirze del Vall\u00e8s", "text": "Felici misero p(o)enarum pondera pelle XP(Christ)\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Votive inscription from S. Quirze de la Serra (Hispania citerior) - HD042072"}, {"coords": [44.1368, 4.80792], "id": 2074, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2074", "long_id": "MPL02074", "place": "Arausio", "text": "Amo te.", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Fibula with love dedication from Arausio"}]

Object Details

Object Type	stele
Material	limestone
State of Preservation	incomplete
Dimensions	width: 56.0 cm height: 47.0 cm depth: 15.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	2.2
Letter Size in cm (max)	4.0
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Unknown

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence	Carmen
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	Yes
Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading	To mark the continuation of a verse in the following line (indentation) To separate words - Interpunction

Text

Function	funerary inscription
Language(s)	Latin
Verse Type(s)	Elegiac couplet
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

TVCONIVXMISERANDEDVASQVOIFVNEREPLAGAS
OBTVLITVNADIESNONTOLERANDAGEMIS
FILIASEXANNISCVRAMOMNEMEXPERTAPARENTIS
HEVQVAMCRVDELIMORTEPEREMPTAIACET
5OFFICIVMINTERNOSCVRAMDIVISERAT:IPSA
VIGINTIANNORVMCVMRAPIEBARERAM
TVDOMINVSCONIVNXPATRONVSMEDECORASTI
FELIXTEVIVOMORTEEGORAPTAPRIOR
SEICOBISSEIVATQVONDAMVNOSVBLARETECVM
10VIXIMVSENVNONVNCSVMVSINTVMVLO
FELIXNVNCIGITVRVIVASDVMVITAMANEBIT
NOSVTCONSVESTIPROPIETATECOLAS

Tu, coniux miserande, duas quoi funere plagas
Obtulit una dies, non toleranda gemis.
Filia sex annis curam omnem experta parentis,
Heu quam crudeli morte perempta iacet.
5Officium inter nos curam diviserat: ipsa
Viginti annorum, cum rapiebar, eram.
Tu dominus coniunx patronus me decorasti,
Felix te vivo morte ego rapta prior.
Seic obi(i)sse iu(v)at quondam uno sub lare tecum
10Viximus, en uno nunc sumus in tumulo.
Felix nunc igitur vivas, dum vita manebit;
Nos ut consuesti pro pietate colas.

Tu, coniux miserande, duas quoi funere plagas
Obtulit una dies, non toleranda gemis.
Filia sex annis curam omnem experta parentis,
Heu quam crudeli morte perempta iacet.
Officium inter nos curam diviserat: ipsa
Viginti annorum, cum rapiebar, eram.
Tu dominus coniunx patronus me decorasti,
Felix te vivo morte ego rapta prior.
Seic obi(i)sse iu(v)at quondam uno sub lare tecum
Viximus, en uno nunc sumus in tumulo.
Felix nunc igitur vivas, dum vita manebit;
Nos ut consuesti pro pietate colas.

Apparatus

l.1 reg., orig. coniux | reg., orig. quoi
l.9 reg., orig. Seic

Text follows ILGN. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.

Main Translation

Translation	You, wretched consort, to whom one day has dealt two funereal strikes, you lament what you cannot endure. A six years old daughter, who has experienced all of a parent's care, oh she lies here snatched away by such cruel death! You had to share your pain between us: I was twenty years old when I got taken away. You my master, husband and patron, bestowed grace on me, I would have been happy to die first, leaving you alive. It was once a delight to live with you all together, but now, look! we lie in the same grave. Now, live happily, whilst you live; care for us, as you have been doing until now.
Citation	Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Tú, esposo digno de lástima, [a quien] un único día le
causó dos [heridas de muerte], [te quejas] de lo que no [puedes
ya soportar]. Una hija de seis años, que había [experimentado
todo] el cariño [de su padre], joh!, [arrebatada] a ti
por una muerte tan cruel, [yace enterrada]. Obligadamente [has
debido dividir] tu dolor entre nosotras dos: [yo misma tenía]
veinte años cuando [fui arrebatada] por la muerte. Tú, mi
[señor], mi esposo y mi patrón, [me dignificaste], y he sido feliz por haber [muerto yo primero], quedando tú en vida.
Me agrada haber muerto así: en tiempos pasados hemos vivido
juntas [contigo en el mismo lugar], también ahora [estamos]
aquí [en una misma tumba]. Así que vive feliz [mientras
te quede vida]: [vela] por nosotras [con cariño] como
has hecho hasta ahora. (Spanish, C. Fernández Martínez)

Prosopographical Information

Gender Female
Age Range Subadult (13–20) [expression: Non-canonical]
Role Dedicatee
Gender Female
Age Range Infant (0–12) [expression: Non-canonical]
Role Dedicatee

Gender	Female
Age Range	Subadult (13–20) [expression: Non-canonical]
Role	Dedicatee

Gender	Female
Age Range	Infant (0–12) [expression: Non-canonical]
Role	Dedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by ILGN. The last full transcription of the text before the loss of the right-hand fragment is in ILGN.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	30 BC
Date (To)	30 AD
Date (Criteria)	language

Bibliography

CLE 02106
ILGN 00579
C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 315-316, nr. 2106. (Spanish translation) 🔗 link
É. Dellong, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 11.1: Narbonne et le Narbonais, Paris 2003, 456. 🔗 link
CLEO 🔗 link
EDCS 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

Images

Editing History

Created	2025-03-24, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status	Confirmed
Import Notice

Revisions

by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 10:03
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 11:53
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 12:03
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 13:48
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 13:50
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 14:25
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 15:34
by Chiara Cenati
at 2025-03-24 15:41
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 16:18
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 16:40
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 17:22
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 17:27
by Fabio Spalla
at 2025-03-24 17:39
by Chiara Cenati
at 2025-03-24 17:51

Download

Download as XML