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E07495: Greek epitaph for a woman resting 'in peace, with (unnamed) saints'. Found in the Cemetery of Priscilla on the via Salaria, Rome. Probably late 3rd/early 4th c. [provisional entry]

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posted on 2019-03-30, 00:00 authored by pnowakowski
Εἰουλία ἐν εἰρήνῃ
μετὰ τῶν ἁγίων

'Ioulia in peace, with the saints.'

Text: ICVR, n.s., VIII, no. 23356 = EDB35217. Transl. P. Nowakowski.

History

Evidence ID

E07495

Saint Name

Saints, unnamed : S00518

Saint Name in Source

ἅγιοι

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Funerary inscriptions

Language

  • Greek

Evidence not before

380

Evidence not after

420

Activity not before

380

Activity not after

420

Place of Evidence - Region

Rome and region

Place of Evidence - City, village, etc

Suburban catacombs and cemeteries

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Suburban catacombs and cemeteries Rome Rome Roma Ῥώμη Rhōmē

Cult activities - Places

Burial site of a saint - crypt/ crypt with relics

Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Prayer/supplication/invocation

Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives

Women

Source

Probably a marble plaque. There is no published description. Present whereabouts unknown, probably lost. First seen by Boldetti in the cemetery of Prisicilla on the via Salaria in the first half of the eighteenth century.

Discussion

Admittedly, it is possible that the saints mentioned here are the ordinary Christians, not the 'proper' saints. Dating: The editors of the Epigraphic Database Bari date the inscription to the late third/early fourth century.

Bibliography

Edition: Epigraphic Database Bari, no. EDB35217. see http://www.edb.uniba.it/epigraph/35217 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. 23356 (with further bibliography).

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