Very fragmentary Latin inscription just possibly referring to relics of unnamed saints. Found in the Cemetery of Priscilla on the via Salaria, Rome. Probably first half of the 4th c. [provisional entry]
Evidence ID
E07494
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
[- - -]lis relic-
[- - -] optatum
[- - -]e eum quem
[- - -]te mei feli-
[- - -]nc titu
[- - - e]xegi
[- - -]ime
2. e]xoptatum de Rossi || 3. E largely lost || 5. N largely lost
Text: ICVR, n.s., VIII, no. 23356 = EDB35217. Transl. P. Nowakowski.
Cult PlacesBurial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Non Liturgical ActivityUnspecified relic
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 ActivityBurial ad sanctos
RelicsUnspecified relic
Bodily relic - unspecified
Bodily relic - entire body
Source
Right-hand fragment of a marble plaque. H. 21 cm, W. 22 cm. Letter height 2-3 cm. The plaque was found in the Cemetery of Priscilla in 1804 by Ponzetti. Later offered to the Vatican Museums by Giovanni Battista de Rossi where it is kept in the Galleria Lapidaria.Antonio Ferrua expressed serious doubts whether the inscription could be considered as Christian. Eventually, he included it in the ICVR VIII as it was lacking the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
Discussion
Dating: The editors of the Epigraphic Database Bari date the inscription to the first half of the fourth century. Ferrua dated it to the third century and presented as a possibly pagan text.Bibliography
Edition:Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB35217.
see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/35217
De Rossi, G.B., Ferrua, A. (eds.) Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores, n.s., vol. 8: Coemeteria viarum Nomentanae et Salariae (Vatican: Pont. Institutum Archaeologiae Christianae, 1983), no. 23356 (with further bibliography).
Record Created By
Paweł Nowakowski
Date of Entry
30/03/2019
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00060 | Martyrs, unnamed or name lost | Uncertain | S00518 | Saints, unnamed | Uncertain | S01744 | Saints, name lost or very partially preserved | Uncertain |
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