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Me(moria) Amant(i)

presbiteri v [e]

rus Dei cult[o]

qui etia-

m cum m-

arturi-

bus

in sinu Abr[ae]

requiescu[nt?] (or i[t]?)

cum Ilar[a]

and nearby:

Memori(a) Amanti presbi(teri) Ilara et Auralia

(ed. Y. Duval 1982, no. 176)

To the memory of the Presbyter Amantius, the worshipper of God, who reposes with the martyrs on Abraham's bosom, with Hilara.

and nearby:

To the memory of the Presbyter Amantius. Hilara and Aurelia.

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

Amantius was buried next to Victorinus, venerated as a martyr (see http://csla.history.ox.ac.uk/record.php?recid=E06954).

The expression "memoria" does not imply the fame of sanctity of the defunct.

We do not know whether Amantius was a Catholic or Donatist presbyter. Neither do we know who were Hilara and Aurelia, but they may have been respectively the wife and daughter of Amantius.

Place of event:

Region

Latin North Africa

City

Tipasa

About the source:

Origin: Tipasa (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian, Donatist

The epitaph was found in the "area of Bishop Alexander" in Tipasa (probably from the first half of the 5th century), and is still there. It is a mosaic, more or less 1 per 1.20 m.

Edition:

Trismegistos no. 203935.

Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Slaby no. EDCS-15600041.

Epigraphic Database Heidelberg HD020526

Bibliography:

Duval, Y., Loca sanctorum Africae: Le culte des martyrs en Afrique du IVe au VIIe siècle (Rome, 1982), vol. 1, 372-374, no. 176.

Categories:

Family life - Marriage

PR996.

Family life - Offspring

PR996.

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR996.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR996.

Relation with - Wife

PR996.

Relation with - Woman

PR996.

Devotion - Veneration of saints and relics

PR996.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2124, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2124