E04731: Fragmentary Latin epitaph for a woman buried probably close to a saint whose name is lost. Found in the lower part of the Cemetery of Callistus, via Appia, Rome. Probably late 4th - early 5th c.
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posted on 2018-01-26, 00:00authored bypnowakowski
e Proci[- - -] vixit an[n(os) - - -] d(ies) III quae [deposita est] in pace [- - - ad (?)] sanct[- - -]
'[- - -] lived [- - -] years, [- - -], three days, and [was buried] in peace [- - - next to (?)] saint (?) [- - -] '
Text: ICVR, n.s., IV, no. 10110 = EDB75.
History
Evidence ID
E04731
Saint Name
Saints, name lost or very partially preserved : S01744
Martyrs, unnamed or name lost : S00060
Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Suburban catacombs and cemeteries
Rome
Rome
Roma
Ῥώμη
Rhōmē
Cult activities - Places
Burial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Burial ad sanctos
Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Women
Source
Fragment of a marble plaque, broken and lost on top and the right-hand side. Preserved dimensions: H. 0.40 m; W. 0.27 m; Th. 0.045 m. Letter height 0.04 m.
First recorded by Antonio Ferrua in area C6 of the Cemetry of Callistus. Published by Ferrua in 1964.
Discussion
Ferrua suggesed that the epitaph recorded a burial of a woman close to the tomb of a martyr whose name was mentioned in the last line.
Dating: Antonio Felle (in EDB) dates the inscription to the very late 4th or early 5th c.
Bibliography
Edition:
Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB75, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/75
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. 10110.