Presbyter Theodosius dedicates an inscription to his late brother, Valerius from Iuvavum (Salzburg), possibly 2nd half of the 5th century.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
Valerio / civ(i) Iuv(avensi) / q(ui) vixit / an(n)os LXXI / i(i)t in pace / VIII Kal(enda)s Augusti (sic) Fratri opt(imo) / T(h)eodosy(us)!) pre/sb(yter) / grex sua / iuvav(it)
Theodosius presbyter [dedicated this and] his flock assisted, to his best brother, Valerius, citizen of Iuvavum, who lived seventy-one years and died in peace on the eighth day before the Kalends of August.
(trans. M. Szada)
Place of event:
Region
Danubian provinces and Illyricum
City
Iuvavum
About the source:
Origin: Iuvavum (Danubian provinces and Illyricum)
The inscription was purportedly on a bronze tablet discovered near Salzburg (between Reinsberg and Nonntal) in 1834 or 1835 and was later sold by an unknown person. It is known from the drawing of G. Pezolt kept in the museum in Salzburg. It was reproduced by A. Huber (1874: fig. 1). According to Mommsen, it was a forgery made by Pezolt but according to Merlin (AE 1956, no. 201) the inscription might have been authentic, dating from the second half of the 5th century (on the basis of comparison to inscriptions published by Ferrua in Rivista di Archeologia Christiana vol. 30, pp. 137-44; and vol. 31, pp. 97-100.
Edition:
Th. Mommsen, Otto Hirschfeld, A.V. Domaszewski (eds.) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III Suppl. 2, p. 40*, no. 369*.
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M. Szada, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER2196, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2196
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