I encountered multiple inscriptions like this in my search.Corpus Inscriptionum LatinarumVI.24944
In his commentary, Boman refers to an epitaph inscription (CIL VI:24944) dating to possibly before 37 AD/CE that mentions a man named "Iucundus Chrestianus."
They were not then entered into "the database" because they involve Chrestus (Latin) / Chrestos (Greek) as a name, or the Greek name Chrestion (which is sometimes spelled Chrestian) as a name. There is no suggestion of anything other than a secular context, where this is a way of indicating someone's full name. It could be considered under "background material" that lays out some of the context of the times, including the fact that Chrestus / Chrestos was a name, as well as Chrestion / "Chrestian" being a name. Since I haven't started gathering "background material," they were not included up to this point.
This background would be very repetitious because there are hundreds of examples with the names Chrestos and Chrestion, which is also often part of someone's full name, sometimes in a form similar to Chrestianus, found here.
Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:16 am