Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 2196
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Presbyter Theodosius dedicates an inscription to his late brother, Valerius from Iuvavum (Salzburg), possibly 2nd half of the 5th century.
Valerio / civ(i) Iuv(avensi) / q(ui) vixit / an(n)os LXXI / i(i)t in pace / VIII Kal(enda)s Augusti (sic) Fratri opt(imo) / T(h)eodosy(us)!) pre/sb(yter) / grex sua / iuvav(it)
 
(following Epigraphik-Datenbank  Clauss / Slaby EDCS-31700018)
Theodosius presbyter [dedicated this and] his flock assisted, to his best brother, Valerius, citizen of Iuvavum, who lived seventy-one years and died in peace on the eighth day before the Kalends of August.
 
(trans. M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region
  • Danubian provinces and Illyricum
City
  • Iuvavum

About the source:

Origin: Iuvavum (Danubian provinces and Illyricum)
The inscription was purportedly on a bronze tablet discovered near Salzburg (between Reinsberg and Nonntal) in 1834 or 1835 and was later sold by an unknown person. It is known from the drawing of G. Pezolt kept in the museum in Salzburg. It was reproduced by A. Huber (1874: fig. 1). According to Mommsen, it was a forgery made by Pezolt but according to Merlin (AE 1956, no. 201) the inscription might have been authentic, dating from the second half of the 5th century (on the basis of comparison to inscriptions published by Ferrua in Rivista di Archeologia Christiana vol. 30, pp. 137-44; and vol. 31, pp. 97-100.
Edition:
Th. Mommsen, Otto Hirschfeld, A.V. Domaszewski (eds.) Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III Suppl. 2, p. 40*, no. 369*.
Année épigraphique 1956, no. 201
Trismegistos no. 402403
Epigraphische Datenbank Clauss-Slaby EDCS-31700018
Bibliography:
A. Huber, Geschichte der Einführung und Verbreitung des Christenthums in Südostdeutschland, Salzburg 1874.

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Relation with - Other relative
Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2196, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2196