Latin inscription commemorating a vow to *Felicitas (martyr of Rome, S00525). Now lost, but probably displayed at the Cemetery of Felicitas/the Cemetery of Maximus on the via Salaria, Rome. Probably 5th c. or later [provisional entry]
Evidence ID
E07496
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
Petrus et Pancara botu po-
sue<ru>nt marture Felicitati.
'Petrus and Pancara set up a vow to the martyr Felicitas.'
Text: ICVR, n.s., VIII, no. 23398 = EDB19812.
Cult PlacesBurial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Non Liturgical ActivityVow
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesWomen
Cult Related Objects
Burial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Burial site of a saint - tomb/grave
Burial site of a saint - cemetery/catacomb
Cult building - independent (church)
Non Liturgical ActivityVow
Bequests, donations, gifts and offerings
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesWomen
Other lay individuals/ people
Cult Related ObjectsEx-votos
Source
The inscription is known only through a copy by Boldetti who reports that he had seen it in the cemetery of Cyriaca ad Sanctum Laurentium, on the via Tiburtina. However, Antonio Ferrua who considers this text as a dedication to the martyr Felicitas, doubts that it could be placed anywhere else than at the site of her tomb and basilica in the Cemetery of Maximus on the via Nomentana. He also produces an argument from other mistaken locations of known epigraphs in Boldetti's work. But except for this reasoning there are no other clues that the inscription indeed pertains to the Cemetery of Maximus.Discussion
De Rossi argued that the inscription commemorated the burial of an ordinary woman Martura/Martyria Felicitas in the Roman catacombs, not a vow made to the saint.Dating: if this is a dedication to Saint Felicitas, it may postdate the restoration of her tomb and lavish donations by Pope Boniface I (418-422).
Bibliography
Edition:Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB19812.
see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/19812
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. 23398 (with further bibliography).
Record Created By
Paweł Nowakowski
Date of Entry
30/03/2019
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00525 | Felicitas, martyr of Rome, with her sons, buried on the via Salaria | Felicitas | Certain |
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