E01098: The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Zephyrinus (bishop of Rome, S00546), states that he was buried in his own cemetery, near that of Callixtus on the via Appia outside Rome, on 25 August [217.

Liber Pontificalis 16

First edition (as reconstructed by Duchesne)

Zepherinus, natione Romanus, ex patre Abundio, sedit ann. VIII m. VII c. X. Fuit autem temporibus Antonini et Severi, a consulatu Saturnini et Gallicani usque ad Presentem et Stricato consulibus... Qui etiam sepultus est in cymiterio suo, iuxta cimiterium Calisti, via Appia, VIII kal. sept.

'Zephyrinus, born in Rome, son of Abundius, held the see 8 years 7 months 10 days. He was bishop in the time of Antoninus and Severus from the consulship of Saturninus and Gallicanus [Gallus, AD 198] to that of Praesens and Extricatus [AD 217]... He was buried in his own cemetery close to the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia on the 8th day before the Kalends of September [25 August].'


Second edition

Zepherinus, natione Romanus, ex patre Habundio, sedit ann. VIII m. VII c. X. Fuit autem temporibus Antonini et Severi, a consulatu Saturnini et Gallicani usque Presente et Stricato consulibus... Qui etiam sepultus est in cymiterio suo, iuxta cymiterium Calisti, via Appia, VIII kal. septem.

'Zephyrinus, born in Rome, son of Abundius, held the see 8 years 7 months 10 days. He was bishop in the time of Antoninus and Severus from the consulship of Saturninus and Gallicanus [Gallus, AD 198] to that of Praesens and Extricatus [AD 217]... He was buried in his own cemetery close to the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia on the 8th day before the Kalends of September [25 August].'


Text: Duchesne 1886, 61/63 and 139. Translation: Davis 2010, 6-7, lightly modified.