Epitaph for a mother and son, probably denoting a burial ad sanctos. Found in the lower part of the cemetery of Callixtus, via Appia, Rome. Probably 4th c.
Evidence ID
E04696
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
Archaeological and architectural - Internal cult fixtures (crypts, ciboria, etc.)
Aurelius Drin-
nacius qui vixit
annis XX [Iu]lia
Victorin[a ma]ter
fecit se v[iva] in-
ter s[ancto]s
'Aurelius Drinacius who lived 20 years. Iulia Victorina, (his) mother, made [this] among [the saints] while she was still living.'
Text: ICVR, n.s., IV, no. 9680.
Non Liturgical ActivityWomen
Burial ad sanctos
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesWomen
Children
Source
The inscription is on a plaque, broken into twelve conjoining parts. There is no published description.First recorded and reassembled by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in area A8 of the lower part of the cemetery of Callixtus. Published by him in 1867. The fragments were not revisited by Antonio Ferrua. Republished by him in 1964, based on de Rossi's edition.
Discussion
The inscription records the purchase of a tomb by a certain Iulia Victorina for her deceased son, and herself. The expression 'inter sanctos' refers apparently to the tomb, which suggests that Victorina considered it to have been sited ad sanctos, that is, in a cemetery famous for its tombs of martyrs and popes.Dating: Antonio Felle (in EDB) dates the inscription to the first half of the 4th c.
Bibliography
Edition:Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB19538, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/19538
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. 9680.
Diehl, E., Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, vol. 2 (Berlin: Apud Weidmannos, 1927), comments to no. 3357.
de Rossi, G.B., La Roma sotterranea cristiana, vol. 2 (Rome: Cromo-litografia pontificia, 1867), 96*, and Tav. XLIII.
Record Created By
Paweł Nowakowski
Date of Entry
25/01/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00060 | Martyrs, unnamed or name lost | sancti | Certain | S00518 | Saints, unnamed | sancti | Certain |
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