Greek epitaph for a woman resting 'in peace, with (unnamed) saints'. Found in the Cemetery of Priscilla on the via Salaria, Rome. Probably late 3rd/early 4th c. [provisional entry]
Evidence ID
E07495
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
Εἰουλία ἐν εἰρήνῃ
μετὰ τῶν ἁγίων
'Ioulia in peace, with the saints.'
Text: ICVR, n.s., VIII, no. 23356 = EDB35217. Transl. P. Nowakowski.
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
Probably a marble plaque. There is no published description. Present whereabouts unknown, probably lost. First seen by Boldetti in the cemetery of Prisicilla on the via Salaria in the first half of the eighteenth century.Discussion
Admittedly, it is possible that the saints mentioned here are the ordinary Christians, not the 'proper' saints.Dating: The editors of the Epigraphic Database Bari date the inscription to the late third/early fourth century.
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 | S00518 | Saints, unnamed | ἅγιοι | Certain |
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