medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, October 22, 2010, at 5:34 pm, I wrote:
> 2) Abercius of Hierapolis (d. late 2d cent.). A. is the first known
> bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia,...
That is, the first person certainly known to have been bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia. St. Papias of Hierapolis (22. February) is called a bishop by Eusebius (_Historia ecclesiastica_, 3. 36) but opinions differ as to the accuracy of that designation.
> ... What appears to be most of A.'s epitaph in verse on a
> monument erected before 216 (the year in which this text was adapted
> for another person's epitaph in a nearby town) survives in two pieces
> now in the Museo Cristiano Pio Lateranense.
That was so in the very early 1960s. The museum in question was transferred to the Vatican in 1963, where it is now the Museo Pio Cristiano. A full text of the inscription is given in A.'s late fourth- or early 5th-century Bios. Here's a view of the two fragments on stone:
http://tinyurl.com/38lw7f3
An imaginative reconstruction of the original monument using in its central panel casts taken from those fragments
is in Rome's Museo della Civiltà Romana:
http://tinyurl.com/34nsxla
The correct reconstruction of the original text of the inscription is problematic in places. Here's the text as given in the _Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum_ (_SEG_ 30.1479):
http://tinyurl.com/34lmtkm
Best again,
JD
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