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Exsode/ru[s?] pres(by)t(er) / vixit a(nnos) / LXXXV r/[eq]uit(!) in / p[a]c[e] IIII Kal(endas) / - - - - - -

(Hispania Epigraphica Online Database no. 20615)

Exsoderus presbyter, lived 85 years, rested in peace on the fourth day before the Kalends ...

(trans. by M. Szada)

Place of event:

Region

Iberian Peninsula

City

Mértola

About the source:

Origin: Mértola (Iberian Peninsula)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The inscription on a white marble slab with some decoration (37 x 22 x 5,5 cm) was found in 1990. It was reused in the wall of the 18th- or 19th-century so-called Vila Velha in Mértola. (Hispania Epigraphica 4 (1998), no. 991).

Edition:

Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby, no. EDCS-05000397

L`Annee Epigraphique 1994 (year 1991), no. 943

M.M.A. Dias, C. Torres. `Fragmentos de Três Novos Epitáfios Paleocristãos de Mértola.` Ficheiro Epigráfico 38 (1991): 173

Hispania Epigraphica 4 (1998), no. 991

Categories:

Burial/Funerary inscription

PR201.

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR201.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER492, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=492