ILCV 00977

Item

Text Category
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
461-468
Location of Display
Latium: Rome: St. John Lateran
Reference
ILCV 00977
Quotation
Hic locus olim sordentis cumuli squalore congestus sumptu / et studio Chr(ist)i famuli Hilari ep(iscop)i iuvante d(omi)no tanta rude/rum mole sublata quantum culminis nunc videtur ad / offerendum Ch(ist)o d(e)o munus ornatus atq(ue) dedicatus est
Part of Speech
Adjective/ Participle (passive)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Church
Cultic: Building: Church
Object/ Person Ornamented
Oratory of the Holy Cross (oratorio della santa croce) at St. John Lateran
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Visual Work: Revetment
Architecture: Architectural Element
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified; context suggests: revetments, wall decorations, perhaps wall repairs or restorations, sculpture
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Pope Hilarus
Notes
Inscription was on the epistyle of the door which led to the baptistery.
Item Identifier
A01594
Determination
Interpreted from context