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[hic requiescit U]rbicus p(res)b(yter) prior

[qui vi]xit annus p(lus) m(inus) LXXXX

[depositus ---] kal(endas) decemb(ris) ind(i)c(tione) III

(ed. Epigraphic Database Bari, EDB19953)

(...) year (...)

The Presbyter Urbicus, the first, reposes here.

He lived more or less ninety years.

He was deposited on the (...) Kalends of December in the 3rd indiction.

(trans. S. Adamiak)

Discussion:

Urbicus is described as "the first" (prior) of the presbyters of one of the titular churches of Rome (according to PCBE Italie, possibly of St Pudenziana). He died on the 1 December of the third year of an indiction, that is AD 510, or 525, or 540, and so on.

Place of event:

Region

Rome

City

Rome

About the source:

Origin: Rome (Rome)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The epitaph comes from the cemetery of St Hippolytus in Rome.

Edition:

Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae, Nova Series, 7, 20003 (Ferrua, Antonio - 1980)

Trismegistos no. 309566.

Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss/Slaby no. EDCS-40400232.

E. Diehl (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, vol. 1, ed. 2., Berlin 1961, no. 1144.

Epigraphic Database Bari no. 19953 (with illustration)

Bibliography:

PCBE Italie 2: [U]rbicus 8.

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR998.

Functions within the Church - Urban presbyter

PR998.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR998.

Age

PR998.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2172, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2172