Funerary inscription of Marturia

Tombstone discovered in the Early Christian Necropolis of Tarragona in 1924 or 1925. Dedicated to Marturia, who died at the age of four and was buried next to the remains of the saints (“cum beatos”). It is an early Christian tombstone dated by the consulate of Eugenius, a teacher of rhetoric proclaimed Augustus by Arbogast, “magister militum” of Valentinian II, in the year 392, after the death of that emperor.

MARTVRIA INNOCE(n)
S VICSIT ANNIS IIII (sic)
RECESS(it) CONSVLATVM (sic)
EVGENI AVG STI PRIMV (sic)
MARTORIA VIVAS (sic)
CVM BEATOS (sic)

"Marturia, innocent, lived for 4 years. She died during the first consulate of Eugenius Augustus. Marturia may you live with the blessed!"

RIT 944

Inventory number: MNAT P-245