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E04645: Latin epitaph for a woman, saying that she ‘will live with (unnamed) saints.’ Found in the 'crypt of Saint Cornelius,' at the Cemetery of Callistus sited between Via Appia and Via Ardeatina (Rome). Probably third quarter of the 3rd c.

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posted on 2018-01-19, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski

[Pri]vata,
[vi]bes (hammer)
[cum sa]nctis

2-3. [vi]bes | [cum sa]nctis de Rossi, Ferrua, [- - - bi]bes | [inter sa]nctis Diehl

'Privata, you will live with saints!'

Text: ICVR, n.s., IV, no. 9433.

History

Evidence ID

E04645

Saint Name

Saints, unnamed : S00518

Saint Name in Source

sancti

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Saints_unnamed/13738717

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

Language

Latin

Evidence not before

276

Evidence not after

299

Activity not before

276

Activity not after

299

Place of Evidence - Region

Rome and region

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Suburban catacombs and cemeteries

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Suburban catacombs and cemeteries Rome Rome Roma Ῥώμη Rhōmē

Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives

Women

Source

Right-hand fragment of a marble plaque. Preserved dimensions: H. 0.24 m; W. 0.45 m; Th. 0.02 m. Letter height 0.035 m. Found in the debris in cubiculum X by Giovanni Battista de Rossi. First published by de Rossi in 1864. Republished by Ernst Diehl, based on de Rossi's edition in 1927. Republished by Antonio Ferrua in 1964.

Discussion

The inscription is an epitaph for an ordinary woman. The saints mentioned in line 3 are probably the general community of all the redeemed Christians rather than any specific saints or martyrs. The inscription may, however, but certainly not necessarily, refer to the closeness of martyrs' burials. Dating: The inscription is dated to the late 3rd c. by Antonio Felle in the EDB. The formula used in the inscription is characteristic of early Christian epitaphs, and the late 3rd c. date is in concordance with the archaeological context.

Bibliography

Edition: Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB20283, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/20283 De Rossi, G.B., Ferrua, A. (eds.) Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores, n.s., vol. 4: Coemeteria inter Vias Appiam et Ardeatinam (Vatican: Pont. Institutum Archaeologiae Christianae, 1964), no. 9433 and Tab. IX e5. Diehl, E., Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, vol. 2 (Berlin: Apud Weidmannos, 1927), comments on no. 3356B. de Rossi, G.B., La Roma sotterranea cristiana, vol. 1 (Rome: Cromo-litografia pontificia, 1864), 324 and Tav. XXIII 5.

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