Fragmentary Latin epitaph saying that the deceased enjoys the company of unnamed saints in her afterlife. Found in the cemetery of Cyriaca ad Sanctum Laurentium, via Tiburtina, Rome. Probably 5th c.
Evidence ID
E05311
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
Archaeological and architectural - Internal cult fixtures (crypts, ciboria, etc.)
[- - - - - - - - - - -]
e Proci[- - - - - - - ]
vixit an[nis - - - - -]
d(iebus) III qua[escit]
in pace [cum]
sanct[is]
2. Procilla or Proclina Ferrua
'[- - -] Procilla (?) lived [- - -] years, 3 days. Reposes in peace [with] the saints.'
Text: ICVR, n.s., VII, no. 19224.
Cult PlacesBurial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Burial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Burial site of a saint - tomb/grave
Burial site of a saint - cemetery/catacomb
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Burial ad sanctos
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesWomen
Source
The inscription is now lost. It is known through a handwritten transcription by Gaetano Marini, who found it in 1781 in the cemetery of Cyriaca on the via Tiburtina.Based on Marini's description, one can assume that the text was carved on a marble plaque, the right and upper parts of which were broken and lost in the 18th c. or earlier.
First published in 1980 by Antonio Ferrua, from Marini's manuscript, and a copy in de Rossi's archive (also dependent on Marini's text).
Discussion
The inscription may refer to tombs of martyrs located in the cemetery where the deceased was buried, but it may also be merely a habitual metaphor of salvation in the company of saints in the afterlife.Dating: The editors of the Epigraphic Database Bari date the inscription to the 5th c.
Bibliography
Edition:Epigraphic Database Bari, nos. EDB30354, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/30354
De Rossi, G.B., Ferrua, A. (eds.), Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores, n.s., vol. 7: Coemeteria via Tiburtinae (Vatican: Pont. Institutum Archaeologiae Christianae, 1980), no. 19224.
Record Created By
Paweł Nowakowski
Date of Entry
11/04/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00060 | Martyrs, unnamed or name lost | Certain | S00518 | Saints, unnamed | Certain |
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