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[column, arch, column / under the arch alpha, chrismo, omega] / Satyrio pr(es)b(ite)r minis/travit in pr[e]sbiterio /ann(os) XIII recessit in / pace Domini n(ostr)i (Ies)u (Christi)i / d(ie) VI n(onas) Martias / era DXXVII memb/ra requiescet / (alpha crux omega)

(Jiménez Cano, Hispania Epigraphica 27851)

[column, arch, column / under the arch alpha, crismon, omega] Satyrius Presbyter served in presbyterial office for 13 years, passed away in the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ on the 6th day before the Nones of March [March 2] in the year 527 of the era. His body will rest (alpha cross omega).

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

The date on the inscription is given according to a Spanish Era, which begun in 38 BC.

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Mértola

About the source:

Origin: Mértola (Iberian Peninsula)

The text is inscribed on the marble slab which is now kept in the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia in Lisbon (Portugal), inv. no. E-6510.

Edition:

Editions:

Jiménez Cano, Hispania Epigraphica 27851

Hispania Epigraphica, vol. 15 (2009), n. 466

E.W.E. Hübner, Inscriptiones Hispaniae christianae, Berlin 1871, n. 312

J. Vives, Inscripciones cristianas de la España romana y visigoda, Barcelona 1942, n. 87

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR72.

Functions within the Church - Urban presbyter

PR72.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR72.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER86, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=86