The funerary inscription, written in a metric acrostych (the first letters of every line form together the name Adeodatus), is placed on the external wall of the quadriportico around the tomb of St Felix in Cimitile near Nola in Campania (Southern Italy; see Cult of Saints E04768) The epitaph was put on the 3rd century sarcophagus with the scene of Selene and Endymion. The inscription is dated to the late 5th/6th century (PCBE) or 6th/early 7th century by Camodeca on the basis of the formulas used and the font. Adeodatus should not to be confounded with the bishop of Nola, Deodatus, as results from his late (twelfth-century) life (Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina 2135).