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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 Callixtus, via Appia, Rome. Probably 5th c.

Evidence ID

E04746

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

[- - -]na qu[- - -]
[- - -] s(an)c̅(t- - -) [- - -]
[- - -]

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

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

Cult Places

Cult building - unspecified
Cult building - independent (church)

Places Named after Saint

Other

Non Liturgical Activity

Bequests, donations, gifts and offerings

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 Callixtus. 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.

Record Created By

Paweł Nowakowski

Date of Entry

29/01/2018

Related Saint Records

ID	Name	Name in Source	Identity
S01744	Saints, name lost or very partially preserved		Certain

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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

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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 Callixtus, via Appia, Rome. Probably 5th c.

E04746

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

Cult building - unspecified
Cult building - independent (church)

Other

Bequests, donations, gifts and offerings

Ecclesiastics - lesser clergy

Source

Discussion

Bibliography

Paweł Nowakowski

29/01/2018

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 Callixtus, via Appia, Rome. Probably 5th c.

E04746

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

Cult building - unspecified Cult building - independent (church)

Other

Bequests, donations, gifts and offerings

Ecclesiastics - lesser clergy

Source

Discussion

Bibliography

Paweł Nowakowski

29/01/2018

Cult building - unspecified
Cult building - independent (church)