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Toto · 07-09-2008, 12:49 PM

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No Robots - the graffito is supposed to be audi christiani, but I don't get any results from that on Google Scholar, and only one for audi christianos, which links to a JSTOR article I don't have access to, which seems to think that the inscription is Aramaic written in Latin letters.

I'm pretty sure it's 'audi christianos', which brings up a lot of hits in google books.

Most of the hits are not to recent books. There is The Rise of Christianity (or via: amazon.co.uk) By W. H. C. Frend, which notes at p. 131 that

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... suggestions that graffiti scratched or painted on house walls indicated the existence of a Latin liturgy and the use of the Chi-Rho as a Christian symbol at the time seem far-fetched. One inscription only, a sentence reading something like “Bovios audi(t) Christianos sevos o(s) ores” (“Bovios hearkens to the Christians, the cruel haters[?]") from a half-obliterated graffito is the most positive evidence and this demands a stretch of imagination to construct a meaning from it.

Face it, this is another dead end.

mountainman · 07-09-2008, 09:54 PM

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Face it, this is another dead end.

To ask the obvious question, which item(s) of the epigraphic evidence that are currently available to us concerning the period of christian origins of the first three centuries are not considered "dead ends"?

And if so, what is this or these citations?

Best wishes,

Pete

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