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ER 1841
Funerary inscription of a woman named Silvia whose son was given the honour of priesthood. Silvia was buried in Vienne (Gaul), AD 579.
Quisquis lucifero sortitur munere seclum / occasu potius proditur ille suo / cunctaque mundano currentia tempore gesta / uel bona uel probra omnia morte canunt / Phebus nempe nitens merito producitur ortu / si pronus claro clauserit orbe diem / consulibus atauis pollens hic Siluia corpus / terrenum liquit celica regna petens / insignis gemino uitae que sidere fulsit / culminibus seclo / religione Deo / natorum splendore potens subfulta uigore / gaudebat partu se se reparasse patres / unde sacerdotii claro dotatus honore / et Celsum meruit cernere patricium / ter quinum rapida uergebant tempora lustrum / et super adiectus tertius annus erat / Martius aurati redimitus siderae ueris / nono sole micans premia tanta tulit / haec suprema dies caelesti in limite prima / quam rapuit seclo / hanc dedit ipsa polo / pignora desistant lacrimis planctuque grauari / non placeat gemere quod celebrare decet / [cuius] depositio est VII idus marsias / [tricies] nouies p(ost) c(onsulatum) Bas<i>li u(iri) c(larissimi) c(onsulis) ind(ictione) XII.
 
(Recueil des inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule: XV, 101)
(...)
Powerful due to the splendour of her sons, reinforced by their vigour, she rejoiced that in her offspring the ancestors were revived, as one of them was given the illustrious honour of priesthood; and she deserved to see Celsus as patrician.
(...)
 
(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Discussion:

Most probably, honor sacerdotii refers here to the episcopal office, but it could also indicate a presbyterial rank.
 
A patrician called Celsus is also known from Gregory of Tours' Histories (IV.24).

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
City
  • Vienne

About the source:

Origin: Vienne (Gaul)
This inscription is known from the 9th-century manuscript and the fragment of the original marble containing most of the last three lines of the text. Dimensions (of the remaining fragment): 15.5 cm × 53 cm × 9.5 cm. Letters: 2.8 cm (first line) and 2.2 cm (second and third lines).
Edition:
F. Descombes (ed.), Recueil des inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule, vol. XV, Paris 1985, no. XV, 101.
Trismegistos no. 439054
Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Slaby no. EDCS-30200097 (ill.)
O. Hirschfeld (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. XII, Berlin 1888, 2094.
E. Diehl (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae christianae veteres, vol. 1, Berlin 1924/1925, no. 181.
D. Cabrol, H. Leclercq, H.I. Marrou (eds.), Dictionnaire d`archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, XV, 2, s.u. Vienne, col. 3087, 61.
E. Le Blant (ed.), Inscriptions chrétiennes de la Gaule antérieures au VIIIe siècle, Paris 1856-1865, no. 438 A.
A. Allmer (ed.), Inscriptions antiques et du Moyen Age de Vienne en Dauphiné. Première partie, Inscriptions antiques antérieures au VIIIe siècle, vol. IV, Paris 1876, no. 1836.

Categories:

Social origin or status - Social elite
Burial/Funerary inscription
Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
Relation with - Father/Mother
Relation with - Brother/Sister
Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1841, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1841
Record by: Jerzy Szafranowski
last edited: 2018-02-26 15:56:04
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