Inscriptions: Epitaph of Iulia Anulla and of the freedwoman Candilia Iucunda by the freedman Lucius Iulius Felix

Identification

Reference as:	MPL02225
Title	Epitaph of Iulia Anulla and of the freedwoman Candilia Iucunda by the freedman Lucius Iulius Felix
Trismegistos-No.	379346

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Emerita Augusta
Find Context	Mérida, between the Ronda de los Eméritos and the Camino del Palo, area of the Residencial Las Abadías, archaeological sector SUP-NO-01, 2002.
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Mérida, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano
Inventory number	160
Current Location Details	Floor 2, Hall VII.
Vicinity	[{"coords": [38.9161, -6.3401], "id": 2225, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2225", "long_id": "MPL02225", "place": "Emerita Augusta", "text": "Iulia C(ai) f(ilia) Anulla hic sita est, fato p\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$Edmondson-2021_00007.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Iulia Anulla and of the freedwoman Candilia Iucunda by the freedman Lucius Iulius Felix"}, {"coords": [38.9161, -6.3401], "id": 2221, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2221", "long_id": "MPL02221", "place": "Emerita Augusta", "text": "M(arcus) Helvius, (mulieris) lib(ertus), Mar-sua, \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of the freed couple Marcus Helvius Marsua and Mallia Galla"}, {"coords": [38.9191, -6.33871], "id": 2229, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2229", "long_id": "MPL02229", "place": "Emerita Augusta", "text": "M(arco) Cornelio M(arci) f(ilio) Pap(iria) Pollio[\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://cil2digital.web.uah.es/images/editores/directorio-epigrafias/607-CILAE/CILAE_607.2_H._Gimeno.JPG", "title": "Epitaph of Marcus Cornelius Pollio, Marcus Cornelius Urbanus and Marcus Cornelius Celer by the freedwoman Cornelia Iucunda"}, {"coords": [37.3827, -5.99629], "id": 246, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/246", "long_id": "MPL00246", "place": "Hispalis", "text": "Nome vixit anno et mensibus VIII diebus XII h(ic) \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph for Nome"}, {"coords": [37.3621, -6.67894], "id": 801, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/801", "long_id": "MPL00801", "place": "Ilipula", "text": "Terrenum corpus caelestis spiritus in me quo repen\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Funerary inscription for Fabatus"}, {"coords": [37.4742, -4.42594], "id": 802, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/802", "long_id": "MPL00802", "place": "Igabrum", "text": "[--?]N(?)atius L(uci) [f(ilius)---] [flame]n sacro\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Igabrum, bei \u2013 Fuente de las Piedras (Baetica) - HD001212"}, {"coords": [37.5409, -5.07995], "id": 810, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/810", "long_id": "MPL00810", "place": "Astigi", "text": "[\u2066 - - - - - - - - - - \u2069] [---]ri(?) aliis(?) [iam\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Astigi \u2013 \u00c9cija (Baetica) - HD002943"}, {"coords": [37.5409, -5.07995], "id": 882, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/882", "long_id": "MPL00882", "place": "Astigi", "text": "[\u2066 - - - - - - - - - - \u2069] sic nam memor[---] studi\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Astigi, bei \u2013 \u00c9cija, bei (Baetica) - HD031994"}, {"coords": [37.5409, -5.07995], "id": 883, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/883", "long_id": "MPL00883", "place": "Astigi", "text": "L(ucius) Petronius L(ucii) f(ilius) Primus hic sit\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of Lucius Petronius Primus by his wife"}, {"coords": [37.6886, -4.4796], "id": 813, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/813", "long_id": "MPL00813", "place": "Soricaria", "text": "T\u0323[e], l\u0323apis, obtestor, le-vite\u0323r\u0323 super ossa\u0323 re\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/co3.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the slave Graeca by her husband Iacchus and an anonymous dedicator"}, {"coords": [38.4751, -4.67948], "id": 814, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/814", "long_id": "MPL00814", "place": "Solia", "text": "[Me donec vivam dolor excruci]abit acerbu[s] [stir\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Solia, bei \u2013 Fuencaliente (Baetica) - HD003968"}, {"coords": [37.2245, -5.31238], "id": 2223, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2223", "long_id": "MPL02223", "place": "Carula", "text": "Firma ((hedera)) Epaphroditi ann(orum) ((hedera)) \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of the freedwoman Firma"}, {"coords": [37.2466, -5.09928], "id": 819, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/819", "long_id": "MPL00819", "place": "Urso", "text": "Fabia Ianuaria, ann(orum) XXV, pia in suis.- Qui\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://centrocil.web.uah.es/fotos_cilii/5/cilii5,01118.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the freedwoman Fabia Ianuaria by her patron Fabius Venustus"}, {"coords": [37.2466, -5.09928], "id": 820, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/820", "long_id": "MPL00820", "place": "Urso", "text": "Ferraria T(iti) f(ilia) Iu[---ann(orum)] XVI h(ic)\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Urso \u2013 Osuna (Baetica) - HD006398"}, {"coords": [37.2466, -5.09928], "id": 878, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/878", "long_id": "MPL00878", "place": "Urso", "text": "------ C(ai) l(ibertus) Faustus, XX ann(orum), h(\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of the freedman Faustus"}, {"coords": [37.2466, -5.09928], "id": 880, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/880", "long_id": "MPL00880", "place": "Urso", "text": "Valeria [. l(iberta?) Crene], an(norum) XL, p(ia) \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/se18.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Valeria Crene"}, {"coords": [37.2466, -5.09928], "id": 881, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/881", "long_id": "MPL00881", "place": "Urso", "text": "------ L(- - -) L(- - -). XX tecum transfers non\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph to an unknown dedicatee from Urso"}, {"coords": [37.8847, -4.77917], "id": 821, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/821", "long_id": "MPL00821", "place": "Corduba", "text": "Column A: [--- n]o\u0323verat unum [---]t et pia nutri\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/co15.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Festus"}, {"coords": [37.8847, -4.77917], "id": 2205, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2205", "long_id": "MPL02205", "place": "Corduba", "text": "T(itus) Acclenus T(iti) f(ilius) Qui(rina) cent(ur\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$MS_CIL_02-07_00287.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Titus Acclenus, Annia Helena and Decimus Vergilius Amarantus"}, {"coords": [37.8847, -4.77917], "id": 2210, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2210", "long_id": "MPL02210", "place": "Corduba", "text": "Nominibus cunctis digno laudata p\u0323u\u0323d\u0323[ore] Servil\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/co9.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of Servilia from Corduba"}, {"coords": [37.8847, -4.77917], "id": 2217, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2217", "long_id": "MPL02217", "place": "Corduba", "text": "Ac\u0323tius mur(millo), ((hedera)) vic(it) VI, an(n)o(\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/co11.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the gladiator Actius by his wife"}, {"coords": [37.8847, -4.77917], "id": 2236, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2236", "long_id": "MPL02236", "place": "Corduba", "text": "Hirria, L(uci) f(ilia), Pa[---] hic sita est, ann[\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of Hirria and of the freedwoman Petilia Marta"}, {"coords": [37.4481, -6.36364], "id": 874, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/874", "long_id": "MPL00874", "place": "Tucci", "text": "Caesia T(iti) f(ilia) Celsa an(norum) LXV h(ic) s(\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Tucci, bei \u2013 Torredelcampo (Baetica) - HD029284"}, {"coords": [38.6193, -7.40856], "id": 958, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/958", "long_id": "MPL00958", "place": "S. Miguel da Mota", "text": "[\u2066 - - - - - - - - - - \u2069]ir[o [---]] [---fa]ma per\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from S. Miguel da Mota (Lusitania) - HD045630"}, {"coords": [37.7073, -5.34643], "id": 2218, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2218", "long_id": "MPL02218", "place": "Celti", "text": "D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum). Atimeti lib(erta) Fabia \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/se23.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the freedwoman Fabia Merope"}]

Object Details

Object Type	slab
Material	marble
State of Preservation	incomplete
Dimensions	width: 43.0 cm height: 27.0 cm depth: 3.5 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	1.8
Letter Size in cm (max)	2.6
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Unknown

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence	Praescriptum + carmen + subscriptum
Prose Verse Distinction	Yes, by different layout
Layout Types (Prose)	Centered Left aligned
Layout Types (Verse)	Right aligned
Scriptio Continua in verse part	no
Abbreviations in verse part	no
Verse Line Correspondence	No
Graphic Signs and Spaces for Easier Carmen Reading	To separate words - Interpunction

Text

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

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

IVLIACF

ANVLLAHICSITAESTFATO
PRAEREPTANEFANDOQVAMMORS
INPARVOTEMPOREPRAERIPVITQVA.
IAMBISNOVENOSPARITERCOMPLEVE
5RATANNOSDICASPRAETERIES:STTL

.ANDILIACLIVCVNDAANNORXXIIII
HICSE

SITTIBITL

ETITERVM

STIBI
TLEVI[]

IVLIVSFELIXTEVCRILDSF
10CVR[]
INAGRPVIIIIINFRPXII[]

Iulia C(ai) f(ilia)

Anulla hic sita est, fato
praerepta nefando, quam mors
in parvo tempore praeripuit, quaẹ
iam bis novenos pariter compleve-
5rat annos. Dicas, praeteries: s(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).

C̣andilia, C(ai) l(iberta), Iucunda, annor(um) XXIIII,
hic s(ita) e(st);

sit tibi t(erra) l(evis)

et iterum

s(it) tibi
t(erra) levi[s].

Ḷ(ucius) Iulius Felix Teucri l(ibertus) d(e) s(uo) f(aciendum)
10cur[avit].
In agr(o) p(edes) VIIII, in fr(onte) p(edes) XII[I?].

Iulia C(ai) f(ilia)

Anulla hic sita est, fato praerepta nefando,
quam mors in parvo tempore praeripuit,
quaẹ iam bis novenos pariter compleverat annos.
Dicas, praeteries: s(it) t(ibi) t(erra) l(evis).

C̣andilia, C(ai) l(iberta), Iucunda, annor(um) XXIIII, hic s(ita) e(st);

sit tibi t(erra) l(evis)

et iterum

s(it) tibi t(erra) levi[s].

Ḷ(ucius) Iulius Felix Teucri l(ibertus) d(e) s(uo) f(aciendum) cur[avit]. In agr(o) p(edes) VIIII, in fr(onte) p(edes) XII[I?].

Apparatus

l.5 reg., orig. praeteries

Text follows Verano and Fernández Martínez. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 5: pra(e)terie(n)s, CLE.
l. 11: XII▴++, Verano and Fernández Martínez.

Main Translation

Translation	Iulia Anulla, daughter of Caius, lies here, snatched away by a ruthless fate, whom death took in little time, who had already reached twice the age of nine. Say, passer-by: "May the earth be light upon you". Candilia Iucunda, freedwoman of Caius, twenty-four years old, lies here; may the earth be light upon you and, again, may the earth be light upon you. Lucius Iulius Felix, freedman of Teucer, took care to put this up with his own funds. Nine feet deep, twelve (or thirteen?) feet wide.
Citation	Fabio Spalla

Other Translations

Julia Anula, hija de Gayo, aquí está sepultada, arrebatada por el hado innombrable, a quien la muerte se llevó en breve tiempo, cuando ya había cumplido el doble de nueve años. Di al pasar: “que la tierra te sea ligera”. Candilia Jucunda, liberta de Gayo, de veinticuatro años, está aquí sepultada. Que la tierra te sea ligera y, de nuevo, que la tierra te sea ligera. Lucio Julio Félix, liberto de Teucro, cuidó que se hiciese a sus expensas. Nueve pies de fondo y doce de frente. (Spanish, J. Del Hoyo Calleja, C. Fernández Martínez, J. Gómez Pallarès, J. Martínez Gázquez, J. M. Escolà Tusset)

Prosopographical Information

Name Iulia Anulla
Gender Female
Age Range Subadult (13–20) [expression: Non-canonical, precision: high]
Role Dedicatee
Name Candilia Iucunda
Gender Female
Age Range Adult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
Legal Status Freedman / Freedwoman
Role Dedicatee
Name Lucius Iulius Felix
Gender Male
Legal Status Freedman / Freedwoman
Role Dedicator

Name	Iulia Anulla
Gender	Female
Age Range	Subadult (13–20) [expression: Non-canonical, precision: high]
Role	Dedicatee

Name	Candilia Iucunda
Gender	Female
Age Range	Adult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
Legal Status	Freedman / Freedwoman
Role	Dedicatee

Name	Lucius Iulius Felix
Gender	Male
Legal Status	Freedman / Freedwoman
Role	Dedicator

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by Verano and Fernández Martínez. The slab has been found alongside a similar fragment (HEp 2005, 00035) which could constitute a duplicate inscription.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	71 AD
Date (To)	130 AD
Date (Criteria)	archaeology formulae palaeography

Bibliography

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ILER 05807
CLE 04, 02383 (with text of the duplicate)
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A. Vázquez Hoys, La mujer en la epigrafía religiosa hispano romana, Cuad. Prehist. Arq. Madr. 9-10 (1982-1983), 140, nr. 102. 🔗 link
R. Francia Somalo, Notas de antroponimia al Thesaurus linguae latinae, Anal. Mal. 11, 1 (1988), 19. 🔗 link
V. Soria Sánchez, Catalogación de inscripciones recientes de Extremadura. In: V. Soria Sánchez, Actas del XXII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, Vigo 1993, Vol. 2, Vigo 1995, 385. 🔗 link
J. B. Thigpen, A literary analysis of Latin epitaphs from Roman Spain which contain creative biographical discourse, Chapel Hill 1995, app. 3, 328, nr. 17. 🔗 link
C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 317, nr. 2111 (Spanish translation of the elegiac couplets) 🔗 link
R. Hernández Pérez, Poesía latina sepulcral de la Hispania romana: estudios de los tópicos y sus formulaciones, Valencia 2001, 40. 🔗 link
G. Méndez Grande, Hallazgos prehistóricos y romanos en la zona norte de la ciudad. Intervención arqueológica realizada en el sector SUP-NO-01 del Residencial Las Abadías, junto a la Ronda de los Eméritos (Mérida), Mérida. Excavaciones arqueológicas 8 (2002), 22-23 (with photo, 23, fig. 9b; also with photo of the duplicate, 23, fig. 9a; also on find context of both inscriptions) 🔗 link
HEp 2005, 00035 (on the duplicate inscription)
R. Verano, C. Fernández Martínez, El epitafio emeritense de Iulia Anulla: un nuevo caso de doblete epigráfico, Epigraphica 74 (2012), 217-228 (with photo, 226, fig. 2; also with photo of the duplicate, 226, fig. 1; also on dating) 🔗 link
J. L. Ramírez Sádaba, Evolución de los CLE en Augusta Emerita: del paganismo a las composiciones cristianas. In: C. Fernández Martínez (ed.), M. Limón Belén (ed.) et al., Ex officina. Literatura epigráfica en verso, Seville 2013, 361 (with photo, 362, fig. 2) 🔗 link
A. Alvar, J. C. Edmondson et al., Si muero, no me olvides. Miradas sobre la sociedad de Augusta Emerita a través de la epigrafía funeraria, Alcalá de Henares 2021, 78-83 (with photo, fig. 33) 🔗 link
CILAE 398 🔗 link
CLEO BA5 🔗 link
EDCS-42700423 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

Images

Epitaph of Iulia Anulla and of the freedwoman Candilia Iucunda by the freedman Lucius Iulius Felix.
Source: EDCS-42700423 (c) J. C. Edmondson 2021

Editing History

Created	2025-09-10, by Fabio Spalla
Work Status	Complete
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