Evidence ID
E08331
Type of Evidence
Inscriptions - Inscribed objects
Votive inscription from Barcelona:
S(an)c(t)i Iulia/ni mart(y)r(is)
'Of saint Julian the martyr'
Text: HEp online, no. 18247, IRC IV, 326, IRC V, p. 123.
Relics
Unspecified relic
Source
A bronze plaque, possibly the lid of a reliquiary, with a text in two lines. It was discovered during the excavations in Barcelona in the church of saint Sever. Dimensions: 3,1 x 5 x 0,3. Now in the collections of the Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat in Barcelona.The inscription is dated palaeographically to the 6th century.
Discussion
It is uncertain which Julian the martyr the inscription refers to. In Hispania it could have been either Julian of Brioude (S00035) or Julian/Ioulianos of Antinoopolis (S01341) as the cults of both these saints are otherwise attested.Bibliography
Database:Hispania Epigraphica online, no. 18247, http://eda-bea.es/pub/record_card_1.php?refpage=%2Fpub%2Fsearch_select.php&quicksearch=iuliani&rec=18247 (with a photograph)
Archivo Epigrafico de Hispania Tardoantigua y Medieval (AETHAM), no. 764, hesperia.ucm.es/consulta_aehtam/
Editions:
Beltrán de Hereda, De Barcino a Barcinona, segles I-VII: les restes arqueològiques de la plaça del Rei de Barcelona, Barcelona 2001, p. 232, no. 301 (with photograph)
Fabre, G., Mayer, M., Rodà, I., Inscriptions romaines de Catalogne, vol. 4, (Barcelona and Paris, 1997), no. 326
Fabre, G., Mayer, M., Rodà, I., Inscriptions romaines de Catalogne, vol. 5, Suppléments aux volumes I-IV et instrumentum inscriptum, París, 2002, p. 123
Record Created By
Marta Szada
Date of Entry
31/07/2024
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00035 | Julian, martyr of Brioude (southern Gaul) | Iulianus | Uncertain | S01341 | Ioulianos and Basilissa, martyrs of Antinoopolis | Iulianus | Uncertain |
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Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
Marta Szada, Cult of Saints, E08331 - http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E08331