The Epitaph of Abercius and Early Christian Inscription

The Epitaph of Abercius is not a poet’s career. This site attaches the heading to a late second-century CE Greek verse inscription from Hieropolis in Phrygia, under the name Abercius, aged seventy-two. Later identification with a bishop Avircius Marcellus is marked as debated.

What this site holds is that twenty-two-line text: stone fragments recovered in the nineteenth century, and a copy in the Life of St. Abercius. The Greek names ἰχθύς, bread and wine, Rome, Syria, and the Euphrates.

Stone and a Greek hagiographical host, not a Latin autograph.