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Orbanus

pr(e)s(biter) famulus D(e)i

vixit annos LXXV

menses sex

requievit in

pace d(ie) septimo

idus augustas

era δLV[..]

(ed. Ramírez Sádaba, Mateos Cruz 2000, no. 47)

(ed. Vives 1942: 19, no. 28)

In laurel wreath: Orbanus Presbyter, the servant of God, lived 75 years, six months, rested in peace in 7th day before the Ides of August, in the year 55[?] of the era (=7 August 513/521).

(trans. by M. Szada)

Discussion:

The date on the inscription is given according to the Spanish Era, which began in 38 BC.

Salas Martin proposed to read the presbyter's name as [N]orbanus.

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Merida

About the source:

Origin: Merida (Iberian Peninsula)

Inscription is on a white marble plate 0,55 m (height), 0,52 m (width), 0,03 m (depth) found in Merida (Monsalud 1904: 447). Now in the collection of Museo Arqueológico Nacional no. inv. 57773.

Edition:

Hispania Epigraphica Online Database, no. 29811

Archivo Epigráfico de Hispania tardoantigua y medieval database, no. 141

E. Diehl, Inscriptiones latinae christianae veteres, Berlin 1925-1931, no. 1177.

J. Vives, Inscripciones cristianas de la España romana y visigoda, Barcelona 1969, no. 28.

J.L. Ramírez Sádaba, P. Mateos Cruz, Catálogo de las inscripciones cristianas de Mérida (Cuadernos Emeritenses 16), Mérida, 2000.

Bibliography:

M.C. Solano Gálvez de San Pelayo y Villalpando Marqués de Monsalud, "Epigrafía romana y visigótica de Extremadura”, Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 45 (1904), 445-448.

D. Claude, "Prosopographie des spanischen Suebenreiches", Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte 6 (1978), 664, no. 56.

J. Salas Martín, J. Esteban Ortega, La colonia Norba Caesarina y la gens norbana en Hispania, Universidad de Extremadura. p. 125.

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR87.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR87.

Age

PR87.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER143, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=143