Gavestone of Besontio and Justiciola
Gravestone of Besontio and Justiciola (5th-6th century), at St. Severus in Boppard, Germany.
In the 1st half of the 5th century, Roman forces withdrew from the fort Bodobrica on the Middle Rhine and the former military camp was used as a civilian settlement. Traces of this Gallo-Roman and later Frankish population are the considerable early-Christian graveyard and the remains of a 6th century church which indicate that Boppard was an early centre of Christianity in the Region. While some of the gravestones were discovered in situ, others had been used as spolia in the Middle Ages.
This gravestone commemorates the deacon Besontius and his niece Justiciola who died only one day apart and were of Gallo-Roman origin. The stone is decorated with a christogram, two doves and Latin crosses.
The inscription reads:
"HIC IN PACE Q[VIE]SCVNT BENEDICTVS / IACONIS BES[ON]
TIO ET NEPTIS SVA / BENEDICTA PV[ELL]A IVSTICIOLA /
OBIIT IVSTIC[I]OLA PVELLA VIII KA(LENDAS) / ET IACONIS
BESONTIO VII K(ALENDAS) APRI(LES)"
"Here rest in peace the blessed deacon Besontius and his niece, the blessed girl Justiciola. The girl Justiciola died on the eight day (25 March) and deacon Besontius on the seventh day (26 March) before the kalends of April"
For additional information, see: Susanne Kern (Ed.): Die Inschriften der katholischen Pfarrkirche St. Severus in Boppard (Inschriften Mittelrhein-Hunsrück, Heft 4), Mainz 2008, pp. 11-12 & DI 60, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis I, Nr. 2 (Eberhard J. Nikitsch), in: www.inschriften.net, urn:nbn:de 0238-di060mz08k0000203.
Gavestone of Besontio and Justiciola
Gravestone of Besontio and Justiciola (5th-6th century), at St. Severus in Boppard, Germany.
In the 1st half of the 5th century, Roman forces withdrew from the fort Bodobrica on the Middle Rhine and the former military camp was used as a civilian settlement. Traces of this Gallo-Roman and later Frankish population are the considerable early-Christian graveyard and the remains of a 6th century church which indicate that Boppard was an early centre of Christianity in the Region. While some of the gravestones were discovered in situ, others had been used as spolia in the Middle Ages.
This gravestone commemorates the deacon Besontius and his niece Justiciola who died only one day apart and were of Gallo-Roman origin. The stone is decorated with a christogram, two doves and Latin crosses.
The inscription reads:
"HIC IN PACE Q[VIE]SCVNT BENEDICTVS / IACONIS BES[ON]
TIO ET NEPTIS SVA / BENEDICTA PV[ELL]A IVSTICIOLA /
OBIIT IVSTIC[I]OLA PVELLA VIII KA(LENDAS) / ET IACONIS
BESONTIO VII K(ALENDAS) APRI(LES)"
"Here rest in peace the blessed deacon Besontius and his niece, the blessed girl Justiciola. The girl Justiciola died on the eight day (25 March) and deacon Besontius on the seventh day (26 March) before the kalends of April"
For additional information, see: Susanne Kern (Ed.): Die Inschriften der katholischen Pfarrkirche St. Severus in Boppard (Inschriften Mittelrhein-Hunsrück, Heft 4), Mainz 2008, pp. 11-12 & DI 60, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis I, Nr. 2 (Eberhard J. Nikitsch), in: www.inschriften.net, urn:nbn:de 0238-di060mz08k0000203.