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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.

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posted on 2018-01-29, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski
[- - -]na qu[- - -]
[- - -] s(an)c̅(t- - -) [- - -]
[- - -]

'[- - -] which (?) [- - -] saint (?) [- - -].'

Text: ICVR, n.s., IV, no. 11677y = EDB40142.

History

Evidence ID

E04746

Saint Name

Saints, name lost or very partially preserved : S01744

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

Language

  • Latin

Evidence not before

400

Evidence not after

500

Activity not before

400

Activity not after

500

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 - 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.

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