![]() ![]() Inscriptions mentioning the early Christian lectors have been discovered in Salona and Parentium. AD) in his De praescriptione hereticorum (41.8). Professional readers were active in earlyĬhristianity as well, from where they emerged as a service of early Church readers during the late 2nd or early 3rd century. They also agree that reading aloud, whether for the audience or for oneself, was present during entire Antiquity in particular cult actions, as well as during the private, public, and formal gatherings. ![]() Most experts agree that oral act was performed so that the content of text would be accurately conveyed to the audience. One of the reasons for the absence of the consensus is the lack of the antiquity text which could illustrate the rules for reading out loud, i.e. Over the last few decades research on reading aloud in Antiquity have experienced great momentum, however, without clear consensus among researchers on the main issue, which is – has it been read out loud to the audience from the manuscript or was it used a technique of oral delivery of the previously memorized text. The aim of this work is, along with the publication of these fragments, to make a comparison with the other epigraphic monuments and to expand our current knowledge about the service of ostiarius in the early Christian church. Latin text, some special characters, but also the fact that the sarcophagus itself was originally made in 3rd (or perhaps late 2nd) century and remodelled in 5th century. The sarcophagus shows several interesting features which include the Vulgar These men were probably buried in a span of a year or two, which is concluded by partially preserved mention of the indictions. the ostiaries (porters) in the Salonitan early Christian church. From the other inscription, which commemorated the person later deceased, we know that his name was Anastasius. The inscription on the central field belonged to an unknown person who was buried the first in the sarcophagus. The fragments bear two inscriptions from which reads that in the sarcophagus were buried two persons. In the depot of the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split are being kept two fragments of the sarcophagus which were found 85 years ago, during the archaeological excavations in Solin on a site called Šuplja crkva. ![]()
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