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Latin building inscription commemorating dedication of the chapel of *Laurence/Laurentius (deacon and martyr of Rome, S00037) by the emperor Valentinian III. Found at Ravenna. [provisional entry]

Evidence ID

E07630

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions

D(omi)n(us) Placidus Valentinianus Pius,
Felix Aug(ustus) dedicavit aedes s(an)c(t)i ac
beatissimi martyris Laurentis.

'Lord Placidus Valentinianus Pius Felix Augustus dedicated the chapel of the saint and the most blessed martyr, Laurentius.'


Text:
RICG I, 597, no. 8*.

Bibliography

Edition:

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum XIII, no. 541*.

de Rossi, G. B.,
Inscriptiones Christianae Vrbis Romae, vol. 2, 8, no. 13.

Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, no. 1792.

Inscriptiones Latinae Selecate, no. 816.

Gauthier, N.,
Recueil des inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule antérieures à la renaissance carolingienne, publié sous la direction de Henri-Irénée Marrou, vol. 1: Première Belgique (Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la Recherche scientifique, 1975), 597, no. 8*.

Kraus, F. X.,
Die altchristlichen Inschriften der Rheinlande, vol. 1 (Fribourg, 1890), no. 198.

Le Blant, E.,
Inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule antérieures au VIIIe siècle (Collection de documents inédits sur l'histoire de France, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1856), no. 260.

Scaliger, J., Cod. Vat. lat. no. 9146.


Record Created By

Małgorzata Krawczyk

Date of Entry

13/06/2019

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00037Laurence/Laurentius, deacon and martyr of RomeLaurentiusCertain


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