Visigoth-era funerary inscription, 665 C.E., outskirts of Beja (Pax Julia), Portugal. See comment translation [3456×4608] [OC]

**other sources say 703 C.E.**

Found on the southern outskirts of modern-day Beja, apparently in 1958. (Modern city center coordinates 38.01729351839411ºN, 7.865433753856979ºW)

**Text** :

CIRCVMDATE VOS OMNES PARITER

PLORATE MECUM QUIA HOC NUVVM

NON EST MORI. FLET MECUM OM/NES

QVOS VALDE TANGIT CAVSA DOLO/RIS

ET ADFLICITO MORTIOS. PROMI/TE

LVCTIBVS ET MERITIS ALMIS MAV/RA FVIT

MICI SVBRINA. PVLCRA/ILLA NIMIS

ASPECTIBVS DECORE ET FACIE PVLCRA

QVEM [SIC] MATER CASTAM/ GENERAVIT

ET TERRA VIRGINEM SUS / CEPIT ET SINE

INIQVITATE SEPVLCRO / RESTITVIT. EV ME

MISERAMQVI TA/ LEM ETATIS FLOREM A

XV ANNO / PERDIDI. EV ME DESOLATVM

/ QUI DVM CEPI GAVDERE TVNC DE /

SOLABOR ET MVLTIS DOLO / RIB(U)S PRO

TE ADFLIGO MOCEGO [Also perhaps “Hoc ego”?] / CALANDRONIVS

ORDO D(OMINU)M VT TI / BI DET REQVIEM

D(OMI)NI / QVARTO KAL(ENDAS) AGVSTAS

ERA / D CC III

**My translation from musem translation to Portuguese**:

Come ye all close, and with me lament

for dying is not a new thing. Cry with me all

those with whose pain and affliction of [this?] death

are deeply affected. Remember with lamentations and holy

acts Maura, who was my niece. Of beautiful eyes and

countenance, her mother in chastity raised her. The

earth received her virgin, and without stain was laid

in the grave.

Woe to me, disgraced, who has lost such a rare flower

who was barely fifteen years old. Woe to me, disgraced,

which until joy I recover, will live in desolation

wounded because of you. Mocego [or: Therefore, I] Calandronius [name of uncle?]

I beseech the Lord to conceed you eternal rest.

She rested in the peace of the Lord the 29 of July 665.