PUBLIC HONOURS FOR DECEASED PERSON, GADES (CÁDIZ), BAETICA Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL AN1960.760.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum AN1960.760 AshLI 149

A marble fragment (0.177 0.21 0.04); the rear surface remains rough and it is broken on all sides.

It is unclear how many lines of text are missing at the start, but there are traces of only the bottom stems of letters to the right on one line before the first legible line. There are triangular interpuncts. The letters OC are ligatured in line 4.

 0.032 (line 2); 0.024 (line 3); 0.023 (line 4); 0.02, with tall T and small O (line 5) This inscription was found near the church of St Joseph (San José) in Cádiz (González). 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). This inscription 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 1960.758-59, 761-62 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
a hic sit est inpensa funeris locus sepulturae laudatio statua decreto decurionum

[---] is buried here... expenses for the funeral, a place for burial, eulogy, a statue by decree of the town councillors…

Line 3: IMPENSA (Hübner, in CIL)

This could be a fragment from an epitaph or an honorific inscription, recalling honours given to the deceased (unclear whether male or female) by the local town council.

Anonymus no.9 (according to CIL); Clemente (1846) p.97 no.170; CIL II no.1735 [Hübner] (1869); Romero de Torres (1934) p.133; Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 1960.7; González, IRPCadiz 131 (1982); Wesch-Klein (1993) p.181

Online: EDCS-05501429 [accessed 12/09/14]

Ashmolean Museum Department of Antiquities MS Accession Register 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 Wesch-Klein G. 1993 Funus publicum. Eine Studie zur öffentlichen Beisetzung und Gewährung von Ehrengräbern in Rom und den Westprovinzen Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag