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[hic p]ọsitus est Victor praesb(iter) tituli Nicome[dis]

[---] XII kal(endas) de[ce]ṃb(res)

(Epigraphic Database Bari no. 15398)

The Presbyter Victor of the title of Nicomedes

(...) 12 days before the Kalends of December [20 November]

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

The Epigraphic Database Bari dates the inscription to AD 390-450.

The titular church of Nicomedes is unknown from other sources.

Place of event:

Region

Rome

City

Rome

About the source:

Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The marble slab, 83 × 135 cm, with the letters 4.5-5 cm in height, comes from the cemetery of Cyriaca near the basilica of St Laurence on the Via Tiburtina in Rome, and is still there.

Edition:

Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae, Nova Series, 7, 18091 (Ferrua, Antonio - 1980)

Trismegistos no. 630747.

Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Slaby no. EDCS-40200280.

E. Diehl (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, vol. 1, ed. 2., Berlin 1961, no. 1140.

Epigraphic Database Bari no. 27689 (with illustrations)

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR993.

Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter

PR993.

Functions within the Church - Urban presbyter

PR993.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR993.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2157, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2157