AE 1919, 00035 = CLEAfr-02, 00026 = IFCCarth-01, 00112 = ILCV 04837 = ILTun 01144 = Zarker 00101

Quisquis ades, lector, causam qui noscere benis(!)

      Funde, precor, lacrimas; non minor hic dolor est.

Hic iacet ex animis magnus decor illa parentum

      Quam mors inmeritam inp[ia] sorte tulit,

5

Incassum nil saeua iubens quam perdere duxit

      Insontem animam dum sine sorde tra(h)it.

Sed hanc Dira dolum rapiens commune parentum

      Tradidit et miseris tristia corda dedit.

Nam uiuit haec moriens, aeterna in luce manebit

10

      Redem(p)ta et magno permanet Aelisio

Vis(!) quinos linquens sup(p)letis mensibus annos

5

iubens corr. Merlin; lubens leg. Zarker; iubans lapis, Ennabli

Provincia: Africa Proconsularis / Località: Carthago
Datazione: 500-600 d.C.

Praescriptum: In hoc tumulo iacens
Postscriptum: [in pace deposita pridie Kalendas Apriles ind(ictione) XII]

EDCS
EDH
TM

 

Reference basis text: AE 1919, 00035

Editing of the digital edition: E. Saltelli, 2011 - A. Prontera, 2022

 

Ennabli = L. Ennabli, Les inscriptions funéraires chrétiennes de la basilique dite de Sainte-Monique à Carthage, Rome 1975

Merlin = A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines de la Tunisie, Paris 1944

Zarker = J. W. Zarker, Studies in the Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Princeton 1958, n. 1144

vv. 1-10: Elegiac couplets

v. 11: Hexameter