Funerary inscription of Presbyter Lycontius, Trier (Gaul), ca 390/410.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
HIC QVIESCIT IN PACE LYCONTIV[S]
PRESBITER TITULUM POSVERU[NT]
FRAT[RE]S SUI QVIRIACUS ET LEOSA;
PRID[IE] K(A)L(ENDAS) NOV(EM)BR(IS) PAVSAVIT
FERIA QARTA.
staurogram flanked by alpha and omega
(Katalog der frühchristlichen Inschriften des bischöflichen Dom- und Diözesanmuseums Trier: 11)
Here lies in peace Presbyter Lycontius; his siblings (fratres), Quiriacus and Leosa put up [this] epitaph; he deceased the day before the Kalends of November, on Wednesday.
staurogram flanked by alpha and omega
(trans. J. Szafranowski)
Discussion:
Both Gauthier and Merten point out that the epitaph was put up by a brother and a sister of the late Lycontius. This might suggest that Lycontius did not have any offspring of his own due to his presbyterial vocation, i.e. he lived in celibacy.
This epitaph was found in the Saint-Paulin–Saint-Maximin necropolis on the sarcophagus. It is now conserved at the Museum am Dom in Trier. The sarcophagus contained eight coins (which enable the dating of the inhumation to ca 390/410) and a small glass bottle.
White marble, fine-grained; dimensions: 65.2 cm × 77 cm × 3.2 cm, with letters from 2.7 cm to 3.5 cm high.
Edition:
H. Merten (ed.), Katalog der frühchristlichen Inschriften des bischöflichen Dom- und Diözesanmuseums Trier, Trier 1990, no. 11.
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
J. Szafranowski, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1865, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1865
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