The Presbyters Project

(Vives 1969: no. 533)

[St]hefanus / [pre]sb(yter) famul(us) / [dei] vixit ann(os) / [3]III req(uievit) in / [pa]ce sub d(ie) / [3 K]al(endas) Aug(ustas) / [(a)era D]LXL n<o=V>n(us)

(Hispania Epigraphica Online Database, no. 30072)

Stephen, presbyter, servant of God, lived years [?], rested in peace on the [?] day before the Kalends of August in the year [590 or 599] of the era.

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

The last line of the inscription is damaged, so the year is not certain.

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Merida

About the source:

Origin: Merida (Iberian Peninsula)

The inscription is on a marble slab of dimensions 60 cm height, 43 lenght, 4 width (Palomar Lopesa 1951: 23-24). It is fragmentary and was found in Mérida and now is kept in the archaeological museum in this city (Vives 1969: no. 533).

Edition:

J. Vives, Inscripciones cristianas de la España Romana y Visigoda, Barcelona, 1969

Hispania Epigraphica Online Database, no. 30072 HEOD

Bibliography:

M. Palomar Lapesa, "De Epigrafía española romano-cristiana y visigoda. I.", Zephyrus 2 (1951), 21-31.

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR272.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR272.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER634, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=634