Funerary inscription of the presbyter Monses from Tropea (Calabria, Italy) who died in the age of sixty, the 5th c.
Intended for scholary use. For credentials see Bibliography
((:christogramma in crucem translatum cum alpha et omega)) ((:christogramma in crucem translatum cum alpha et omega))
B(onae) m(emoriae) s(acrum) Monses presbiter
qui vixit ann(is) LX m(ensibus) VIII d(iebus) VIIII cui
bene fecerunt fili precessit
in pace die kal(en)d(as) Decembres.
(Epigraphic Database Rome no. 006612)
[above the text there are two crosses with the letters alpha and omega on the sides]
Sacred of the holy memory: Monses, presbyter who lived sixty years eight months and nine days whose children ereceted this tomb. He passed away in peace on the day of the Kalends of December.
(trans. M. Szada)
Discussion:
It is sometimes proposed that Monses was a husband of Leta, woman described as presbytera in the other inscription from Tropea in Calabria (see [1300], PCBE 2, Italie, v. 2).
Place of event:
Region
Italy south of Rome and Sicily
City
Tropea
About the source:
Origin: Tropea (Italy south of Rome and Sicily)
A white marble slab, damaged along the edges. The dimensions: H: 0,81m; W: 1,17m; Th.: 0,025m. The inscription is not carved centrally on the slab. It was found in 1876 by Felice Toraldo near the Torre Lunga in Tropea during the excavations at the paleochristian cemetery. Now kept in Palazzo Toraldo in Tropea (Buoncore 1987: no. 12).
Please quote this record referring to
its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL:
M. Szada, Presbyters
in the Late Antique West, ER1301, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1301
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