Inscriptions: Epitaph of the household slave Salviola

Identification

Reference as:	MPL00931
Title	Epitaph of the household slave Salviola
Trismegistos-No.	229062

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place	Carthago Nova
Find Context	First seen reused in the western wall of the so-called casa de los Cuatro Santos, 18th century.
Latitude	0.0
Longitude	0.0
Current Location	Cartagena, Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Cartagena
Inventory number	74
Current Location Details
Vicinity	[{"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 931, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/931", "long_id": "MPL00931", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "Filiola\u0323[m] amisit pa[trem], materque sequtast ips\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/mu5-scaled.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the household slave Salviola"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 927, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/927", "long_id": "MPL00927", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "Mater, si posse[m], fili vice mortis s[---]. Nunc \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph of Philocalus by his mother Aucta and sister Adventa"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 928, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/928", "long_id": "MPL00928", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "Argentaria C(ai) f(ilia) Faustil(la) octavos cum i\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Carthago Nova \u2013 Cartagena (Hispania citerior) - HD037645"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 929, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/929", "long_id": "MPL00929", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "C(aius) Licinius C(ai) f(ilius) Torax hospes consi\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Carthago Nova \u2013 Cartagena (Hispania citerior) - HD037760"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 930, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/930", "long_id": "MPL00930", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "M(arcus) Oppius M(arci) f(ilius) fore(n)sis ars hi\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Carthago Nova \u2013 Cartagena (Hispania citerior) - HD037778"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 932, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/932", "long_id": "MPL00932", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "Sicinia C(ai) f(ilia) Secunda filia cum matre est \u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Carthago Nova \u2013 Cartagena (Hispania citerior) - HD037805"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 933, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/933", "long_id": "MPL00933", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "[Q(uintus) Lusius] L(uci) f(ilius) Seni[ca] [molle\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Carthago Nova, bei \u2013 Cartagena, bei (Hispania citerior) - HD037944"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 2219, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2219", "long_id": "MPL02219", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "Vinuleia L(uci) l(iberta) Calena. Heic sitast. F\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://cil.bbaw.de/ace/files/PH0001333.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the freedwoman Vinuleia Calena by her daughter"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 2220, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2220", "long_id": "MPL02220", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "Sei quaer\u0323i\u0323s\u0323 nomen, [co]n\u0323s\u0323i\u0323s\u0323-te et percipe\u0323 \u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/mu13b.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of of the freedwoman Pontiliena"}, {"coords": [37.6028, -0.987953], "id": 2227, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2227", "long_id": "MPL02227", "place": "Carthago Nova", "text": "\|A Plotia L(uci) et F\u0323ufiae l(iberta).- Prune ha\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$CIL_02_03495.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the freedwoman Plotia"}, {"coords": [39.4704, -0.376813], "id": 860, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/860", "long_id": "MPL00860", "place": "Valentia", "text": "Pius pr(a)eclarus doctor alacer facundus Iustinian\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Elogium from Valentia \u2013 Valencia (Hispania citerior) - HD024284"}, {"coords": [39.4704, -0.376813], "id": 861, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/861", "long_id": "MPL00861", "place": "Valentia", "text": "Constructu(m) p[---cu]rrunt fastigium quis[--- a?]\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Building/dedicatory inscription from Valentia \u2013 Valencia (Hispania citerior) - HD024287"}, {"coords": [39.4704, -0.376813], "id": 862, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/862", "long_id": "MPL00862", "place": "Valentia", "text": "[\u2066 - - - - - - - - - - \u2069] [b?]ona liq[uet?] [---]l\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Inscription from Valentia \u2013 Valencia (Hispania citerior) - HD024293"}, {"coords": [38.8428, 0.107511], "id": 935, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/935", "long_id": "MPL00935", "place": "Dianium", "text": "C(aius) Iul(ius) H[---] sibi et Co[rneliae] Sphr[a\u2026", "thumbnail_url": null, "title": "Epitaph from Dianium \u2013 Denia (Hispania citerior) - HD039492"}, {"coords": [38.8428, 0.107511], "id": 938, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/938", "long_id": "MPL00938", "place": "Dianium", "text": "M(arcus) Acilius Eros h(ic) s(itus) e(st), pistor.\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://institucional.us.es/cleo/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/v7.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of the baker Marcus Acilius Eros by his freedmen and freedwomen"}, {"coords": [39.4883, -1.10044], "id": 2235, "item_url": "https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscriptions/show/2235", "long_id": "MPL02235", "place": "Requena", "text": "Iu[---]++ +V\u0323[---] S\u0323osi-n\u0323a++g\u0323i f(ilius) Gili-t\u2026", "thumbnail_url": "https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$ZPE_192_306_1.jpg", "title": "Epitaph of a man killed by bandits, dedicated by his son and sons-in-law"}]

Object Details

Object Type	slab
Material	limestone
State of Preservation	incomplete
Dimensions	width: 26.0 cm height: 25.0 cm depth: 10.0 cm
Letter Size in cm (min)	2.0
Letter Size in cm (max)	3.0
Execution Technique	chiselled
Religion	Pagan

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
Decoration Tags

Verse Layouts

Prose Verse Presence	Carmen + subscriptum
Prose Verse Distinction	No distinction
Layout Types (Prose)	Left aligned
Layout Types (Verse)	Left 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
Rhythmisation	Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

Diplomatic Interpretative Verse Visualisation

FILIOL.[]
AMISITPA[]
MATERQVE
SEQVTASTIPSA
5HVIVSNOMENSALVIO[]
FVERAT

MMAESTILVCRIONISV..NA
ANNORVMXXI

Filiolạ[m]
amisit pa[trem],
materque
sequtast ipsa.
5Huius nomen Salvio[lae]
fuerat,

M(arci) Maesti Lucrionis vẹṛna,
annorum XXI.

Filiolạ[m] amisit pa[trem], materque sequtast
ipsa. Huius nomen Salvio[lae] fuerat,

M(arci) Maesti Lucrionis vẹṛna, annorum XXI.

Apparatus

l.4 reg., orig. sequtast

Text follows Cenati, González Berdús and Kruschwitz. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 1: Filiola, Hernández Pérez and Gómez Font.
l. 2: pat[er heu], CIL 01 (2nd ed.); CartNova.

Main Translation

Translation	As a little daughter, she lost her father, and when she had become a mother, she herself followed (sc. his fate). Her name was that of Salviola. She had been the home-born slave of Marcus Maestius Lucrio, and she was aged 21.
Citation	C. Cenati, V. González Berdús, P. Kruschwitz

Other Translations

El padre perdió a su hija y su madre la ha seguido, cuyo nombre había sido Salviola, esclava nacida en casa de su dueño, M. Maestro Lucrión. A los veintiún años. (Spanish, A. Beltrán)
De pequeña la hija perdió a su padre y, siendo madre, ella, a su vez, lo siguió. Su nombre era Salviola, esclava de Marco Mestio Lucrión, de veintiún años. (Spanish, R. Hernández Pérez, X. Gómez Font)

Prosopographical Information

Name Salviola
Gender Female
Age Range Adult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
Legal Status Slave
Role Dedicatee

Name	Salviola
Gender	Female
Age Range	Adult (21–60) [expression: Canonical, precision: high]
Legal Status	Slave
Role	Dedicatee

Further Information

Comment

Dating proposed by Abascal Palazón and Ramallo Ascensio (CartNova). Koch (CIL o1 [2nd ed.]) proposes a dating to the broad 1st century BC, though without criteria.

Squeeze

Have Squeeze?	no

Dating

Date (From)	50 AD
Date (To)	1 AD
Date (Criteria)	palaeography

Bibliography

CIL 02, 03501
CLE 01070
CIL 01 (2nd ed.), 03449h (also on alternative readings and dating)
CartNova 03, 00171 (with photo, tab. 153; also on alternative readings and dating) - HEp 1996
ELRH C43
J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 240, nr. 668. 🔗 link
A. Beltrán, Las inscripciones funerarias en Cartagena, Arch. Esp. Arq. 23, 81 (1950), 422-423, nr. 87 (with Spanish translation and drawing, 432, fig. 87) 🔗 link
HEp 1996, 00665
C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 494, nr. 1070 (Spanish translation of the elegiac couplet) 🔗 link
R. Hernández Pérez, X. Gómez Font, Carmina Latina Epigraphica Carthaginis Novae, Valencia 2006, 43-45, nr. 5 (with photo) - AE 2006, HEp 2006 🔗 link
AE 2006, 00145
HEp 2006, 00275
C. Cenati, V. González Berdús, P. Kruschwitz, Ceterum censemus Carthaginem Novam esse legendam: Roman poetry as cultural history, Exemplaria classica. Journal of classical philology 28 (2024), 117-118, nr. 5 (with English translation and photo, 117) 🔗 link
CLEO MU5 🔗 link
EDCS-05502883 🔗 link
HD037799 🔗 link
HEpOl 9575 🔗 link
MQDQ 🔗 link

Images

Epitaph of the household slave Salviola.
Source: CLEO MU5 (c) M. Ruiz

Editing History

Created	2025-09-08, by Eric Andreas Kunz
Work Status	Complete
Import Notice	Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-07-11T12:11:21, ID there: HD037799

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