A new reading of the epitaph of the lector Tigridius (CLE 2197): a critical study of a Christian funerary carmen from Late Antique Gaul
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This article offers a comprehensive study of the epitaph of Tigridius (CLE 2197 = CIL XIII, 2799), a young Christian lector from Augustodunum (Autun) in Gaul, dated between the 4th and 5th centuries AD. Based on the drawing transmitted by de Beaumesnil (1781) and subsequent editions, the material condition of the inscription is examined, along with its textual reconstruction, possible configuration as a commaticum, and intertextual richness. The study also presents a critical reassessment of the traditionally accepted text, proposing a new reading that sheds further light on the internal structure of the epitaph and its connection to Christian discourse of the period.
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Abreviaturas y fuentes
CIL = 1863-. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Berlin: De Gruyter.
CLE = Bücheler, Franz y Lommatzsch, Ernst 1982. Anthologia Latina, fasc. 1–2: Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Stuttgart: Teubner.
ILCV = Diehl, Ernst 1967. Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres. Berlin-Dublin- Zürich: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
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