E04662: Scarcely legible Latin and Greek graffiti with invocations of Xystus/Sixtus II (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00201), and probably other deceased popes. On a wall at the entrance to the 'crypt of the popes,' Cemetery of Callistus, Via Appia, Rome. Probably second half of the 4th - first half of the 5th c.

Sux[ste (?) - - - - - -] roge
Λέωνος
...otia pe[t]ite Κάτ[ελλος (?) - - -]
... et pro parente
f]ratribus eius.....
v]iban sun bono
Ursacia ... TIN ...
Ἑλάφιν dulc
εἰς μνίαν Πολυνείκ[ης]
Ἀχιλλεὺς ἔχεται
ζή<σ>αις ὁρκίζ[ο]υ Διονύσιν
διὰ τὸν (christogram) εἰς μνίαν ἔχεται LS Agnes
Ἐλπιδηφ(όρος)
AM Suggessum Marcia
du]lc[is
anim[a
.. anum matri

'O Xystus, [- - -] ask for [- - -], and intercede [- - -] and on behalf of the the parent [- - -] his brothers [- - -] may they live in prosperity!'

'Of Leon, of Katellis (?)'

'Ursacia [- - -] sweet [- - -]'

'Polynikes.'

'Achilleus, may you live [- - -]'

'Keep in memory Elaphios, I beg you through Christ! Elpidephoros.

'Keep in memory Dionysios!'

'Agnes'

'Marcia'

'Suggessus'

'sweet'

'soul'

Text: ICVR, n.s., IV, no. 9523.