Very fragmentary Latin inscription, just possibly mentioning either *Hippolytus (martyr of Rome, S00509) as a 'blessed' one, or an ordinary deceased Hippolytus. Found in the cemetery of Hippolytus on the via Tiburtina, Rome. Probably 4th-6th c.
Evidence ID
E05355
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.)
Archaeological and architectural - Internal cult fixtures (crypts, ciboria, etc.)
[- - -] ḅ[e]at[us]
Hippol[ytus]
custọ[s - - -]
[- - - - - -]
'[- - -] blessed Hippolytus, guardian [- - -].'
Text: ICVR, n.s., VII, no. 20086b = EDB20465.
Cult PlacesBurial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
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
Source
Fragment of a marble plaque. Preserved dimensions: H. 0.15 m; W. 0.12 m; Th. 0.022 m. Letter height 0.032 m.Found in 1968 in a crypt sited near the subterranean basilica in the cemetery of Hippolytus on the via Tiburtina. First published by Antonio Ferrua in 1980. The completions we follow here were suggested by Domenico Schiraldi in the Epigraphic Database Bari.
Discussion
Scarcely anything can be read in such a small fragment. Therefore, the interpretation is very hypothetical. The inscription may mention saint Hippolytus the eponym of the cemetery, possibly described as beatus, a 'blessed' person (a martyr?); it but may also be the epitaph for an homonymous ordinary deceased person.Bibliography
Edition:Epigraphic Database Bari, nos. EDB20465, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/20465
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. 20086b.
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From: ICVR, n.s., VII, 443.
Record Created By
Paweł Nowakowski
Date of Entry
21/04/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00509 | Hippolytus, martyr of Rome | Hippolytus | Uncertain |
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