EPITAPH OF CERCIA PNOE, GADES (CÁDIZ), BAETICA Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.758.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.758 AshLI 147

A small plaque of white marble (0.188 0.196 0.034), its rear surface smoothly finished. The plaque is broken upon all sides, but the right edge has subsequently been smoothed.

there are ivy-leaf interpuncts throughout.

 0.022, with tall I 0.024 (line 1); 0.024 (lines 2-4); 0.021 (line 5). It was found near the church of St Joseph (San José) in Cádiz (González 1982). first/second century AD. According to CIL, this inscription was recorded in the mid-sixteenth century by an anonymous traveller, whose manuscript is preserved in Turin’s Archivio di Stato (Francesconi collection, vol. 62, W I 5, f.678-692). It was found near the church of St Joseph (San José) in Cádiz (González 1982). Its current location was unknown to the editor of IRPCadiz in 1982, but according to the Ashmolean Accession Register it was acquired by the Ashmolean in 1960, purchased on 2nd June together with 1960.759, 760, 761, 762 for £12.10.0 from the dealer Roger Warner, of Burford, who had in turn acquired the inscriptions from the collection of Lord St Vincent, of Sudbury Hall. Photograph Photograph
Cercia Pnoe cara suis annorum XLV hic sita est sit tibi terra levis

Cercia Pnoe, dear to her family, 45 years old, is buried here. May the earth lie lightly upon you.

CERGIA (Clemente).

This is one of three epitaphs for members of the same family, together with those of Cercius Annianus and Cercia Sura (IRPCadiz 184a-c) (on the gentilician name Cercius, see Albertos Firmat 1966: pp.85-86). It seems that this epitaph has become separated from the others. The last formula represents an example of how an epitaph might invite the viewer to articulate good wishes for the deceased.

Anonymus no.5 (according to CIL); Clemente (1846) p.95 no.165; CIL II no.1788b [Hübner] (1869); Romero de Torres (1934) p.141; Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1960.758; Vives, ILER no.3005 (1971); González, IRPCadiz 184b (1982)

Online: EDCS-05501483 [accessed 12/09/14]

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register Albertos Firmat M.L. 1966 La onomastica personal primitiva de Hispania. Tarraconense y Betica Salamanca Theses et Studia Philologica Salmanticensia 13 Clemente F. de 1846 Inscripciones romanas de Cadiz Cádiz Don Manuel Bosch González J. 1982 Inscripciones romanas de la provincia de Cadiz Cádiz Disputación de Cádiz [=IRPCadiz] Romero de Torres E. 1934 Catálogo monumental de España. Provincia de Cádiz (1908-1909) Texto Madrid Madrid: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes Vives J. 1971 Inscripciones latinas de la España romana Barcelona Departamentos de Filología Latina