Very fragmentary Latin inscription, probably an epitaph, giving a consular date of AD 372, and with just possibly a reference to a feast or the basilica of *Felicitas (martyr of Rome, S00525). Found at the Cemetery of Felicitas/the Cemetery of Maximus on the via Salaria, Rome. [provisional entry, description needed]
Evidence ID
E07497
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
[- - -]ỊỊ[- - -]
[- - -]Mode[sto et Arintheo - - -]
[- - - Felici]tatis[- - -]
3. just possibly natale S. Felicitatis Ferrua or in basilica S. Felicitatis de Rossi
'[- - - in the consulship of] Modestus [and Arintheus - - -] of Felicitas [- - -]'
Note: line 3 may read: 'on the day of the feast of Saint Felicitas' or 'in the basilica of Saint Felicitas'.
Text: ICVR, n.s., VIII, no. 23414a = EDB21731.
FestivalsSaint’s feast
Cult PlacesCult building - independent (church)
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Saint’s feast
Dating by saint’s festival
Cult PlacesCult building - independent (church)
Burial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Burial site of a saint - tomb/grave
Burial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics
Non Liturgical ActivityPrayer/supplication/invocation
Burial ad sanctos
Source
Fragment of a marble plaque, broken and lost on all sides, put together of six conjoining smaller fragments. Preserved dimensions: H. 0.15 m; W. 0.16 m; Th. 0.055 m. Letter height 0.04 m. Found during the first surveys of the surface basilica at the cemetery of Felicitas/Cemetery of Maximus.First published by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in 1885. [description needed]
Discussion
De Rossi and Ferrua supposed that the name Felicitas, only partly preserved in line 3, could refer to a feast ('natale S. Felicitatis') or the basilica of the saint ('in basilica S. Felicitatis' - here given probably as the location of the tomb).Dating: The consular date is partly lost, but we can reconstruct it as AD 372.
Bibliography
Edition:Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB21731.
see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/21731
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. 23414a (with further bibliography).
de Rossi, G.B., "Scoperta d'una cripta storica nel cimitero di Massimo ad sanetam Felicitatem sulla via Salaria Nuova", Bullettino di archeologia cristiana 4. Ser. 3 (1884-1885), 177.
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 | Uncertain |
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