Evidence ID
E04735Saint Name
Saints, name lost or very partially preserved : S01744
Saints, unnamed : S00518
Martyrs, unnamed or name lost : S00060Saint Name in Source
martyresType of Evidence
Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions
Archaeological and architectural - Cult buildings (churches, mausolea)Evidence not before
400Evidence not after
500Activity not before
400Activity not after
500Place of Evidence - Region
Rome and regionPlace of Evidence - City, village, etc
Suburban catacombs and cemeteriesPlace of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Suburban catacombs and cemeteries
Rome
Rome
Roma
Ῥώμη
RhōmēCult activities - Places
Burial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relicsCult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Burial ad sanctosCult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Other lay individuals/ peopleSource
Two fragments of marble plaques, broken and lost on all sides. Fragment A: H. 0.21 m; W. 0.24 m; Th. 0.045 m. Letter height 0.04 m. Fragment B: H. 0.10 m; W. 0.20 m; Th. unknown. Letter height 0.035 m.
Fragment B was found by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in area A of the lower part of the cemetery of Callistus. First published by Antonio Ferrua in 1964 from a squeeze by de Rossi. Ferrua could not find the stone, which is probably lost. Fragment A was recorded by Antonio Ferrua in area C3. Both fragments were published together by Ferrua in 1964, but they are unconnected. Included in the collection of Roman inscription referring to the cult of saints by Paola de Santis (2010).Discussion
The inscriptions record burials close the tomb of a saint and/or martyrs whose names are lost.
Dating: Marida Pierno (in EDB) dates the inscriptions to the 5th c.; Paola De Santis (2012) dates Inscription 2 to the same period, and says that Inscription 1 cannot be confidently dated.Bibliography
Edition:
Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB40956, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/40957
Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB40956, see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/40957
De Santis, P., Sanctorum monumenta. 'Aree sacre' del suburbio di Roma nella documentazione epigrafica (IV-VII secolo) (Bari: Edipuglia, 2010), 213, no. 61, and 214, no. 65.
De Rossi, G.B., Ferrua, A. (eds.) Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores, n.s., vol. 4: Coemeteria inter Vias Appiam et Ardeatinam (Vatican: Pont. Institutum Archaeologiae Christianae, 1964), no. 10352A-b.
