E04746: Very small fragment of a Latin inscription (epitaph?) possibly referring to a saint (or a titulus of a saint). Found on the surface, by the Cemetery of Callistus, on the via Appia, Rome. Probably 5th c.
Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Suburban catacombs and cemeteries
Rome
Rome
Roma
Ῥώμη
Rhōmē
Cult activities - Places
Cult building - unspecified
Cult activities - Places Named after Saint
Other
Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Bequests, donations, gifts and offerings
Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Ecclesiastics - lesser clergy
Source
Wedge-shaped fragment of a marble plaque, probably from its upper part, preserving the upper margin. There is no published description.
Found by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in 1844, in a vineyard at the site of the Cemetery of Callistus. First published by Antonio Ferrua in 1964 from de Rossi's papers, in a drawing with no transcription. The text was read from the drawing by Marida Pierno, and presented in the Epigraphic Database Bari. Now probably lost.
Discussion
The fragment almost certainly comes from an epitaph. Line 2 may contain a mention of an institution/titulus of a saint with which the deceased was associated. See, for example, EXXXXX (titulus of Saint Anastasia, ICVR IV 12303), see also E04744.
Dating: Marida Pierno (in EDB) dates the inscription to the 5th c.
Bibliography
Edition:
Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB40142, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/40142
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. 11677y.