E04661: Latin and Greek graffiti with invocations of *Balbina (virgin and martyr of Rome, S01849), naming one of the supplicants her alumnus, of *Xystus/Sixtus II (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00201), and of unnamed 'holy spirits' (presumably martyrs). On a wall at the entrance to the 'crypt of the popes,' Cemetery of Callistus, Via Appia, Rome. Probably second half of the 4th - first half of the 5th c.

domna Balbina pete pro Marcianum alumnu iim(?)
Successum Rufinum Agapitum e[t ---]

sancte Xuste
in mente habeas in ho[rationibus ---]
Succ[es]sum Ru- finu Agapitum
ut quot iter ausi facer[---]

Marcianum
Successum
Severum spirita
sancta in mente
havete et om-
nes fratres nos-
tros

'Lady Balbina, intercede on behalf of Marcianus, your (?) alumnus, Successus, Rufinus, Agapitus, and [- - -].'

'O Saint Xystus, may you keep in mind, in prayers [- - -] Successus, Rufinus, Agapitus, may they depart with courage [- - -]!'

'O holy spirits, keep in mind Marcianus, Successus, Severus, and all our brothers!'

Lines 7-8 overlap a Greek graffito invoking Xystus, accompanied by the name of a certain Vitalis or Vitalicius. Ferrua gives the following text:

Ξύστε, ἐν [- - -] Βι[τ]άλις Β[ιτ]α[λ]ίχις

'O Xystos, in [- - -] Vitalis (or: Vitalichis = Vitalicius)'

Text: ICVR, n.s., IV, no. 9522 = Carletti 2008, 275, no. 174c (only line 1).