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[ hic requiesci]t Benenatus pr̅e̅(s)b(yter)

[---] de̅p̅o(situs) d(ie) XIII ka̅l(endas) fe̅b(ruarias)

[--- cons(ulatu) Fl(avii) Ri]cimeris v̅(iri) c̅(larissimi) ((crux immissa))

[ hic posita Ru]stica c(larissima) f(emina) eius de̅p̅o(sita)

[sub die --- co]ns(ulatu) Fl(avi) Magni v(iri) c(larissimi) ((crux immissa))

(after Piazzolla and Rocco, EDB34314 and EDB34315, 2013, 2015)

Here lies the presbyter Benenatus

[---] who was deposed on the 13th day before the Kalends of February [=20 January]

[---] in the year of the consulship of Flavius Ricimer, vir clarissimus ((the Latin cross))

Here lies Rustica, clarissima femina, his wife, deposed

on the day [---] in the year of consulship of Flavius Magnus, vir clarissimus ((the Latin cross))

(trans. M. Szada)

Discussion:

Rustica's high social status noted by the title of "clarissima" is worth noting.

Place of event:

Region

Rome

City

Rome

About the source:

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

Inscription is on a fragmentary marble slab which is now in the Chapel of Crucifixion in the church of saint Praxedis in Rome. The dimensions: 88 cm height, 89 width, height of the letters: 5,5 cm.

Edition:

A. Ferrua, "Nuove iscrizioni di s. Pudenziana, s. Prassede e s. Maria in Domnica", Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 44 (1968), 139-160

F. Piazzola and A. Rocco, Epigraphic Database Bari EDB34314, EDB34315 [edited in 2013 and 2015; accessed in 2019] (with a photography)

Categories:

Social origin or status - Social elite

PR1006.

Family life - Marriage

PR1006.

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR1006.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR1006.

Relation with - Wife

PR1006.

Relation with - Woman

PR1006.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2191, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2191