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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cilliers, Louise

Titel

Augustine and the medical scene in Roman North Africa in the late fourth and early fifth centuries

Ist Teil von

• Roman North Africa, 2019, Vol.3, p.181-196

Ort / Verlag

The Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1919, archaeological excavations at Thamugadi (now Timgad) in North Africa brought to light a fragment of an inscription containing an invocation to Christus Medicus–‘Christ the Physician’. A second fragment completing the inscription was found nearby in 1923.¹ This unique epigraphic evidence dating to the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century CE confirms numerous references to this concept in Christian literature. Arbesmann indicates that it was popular in Roman North Africa since the time of Tertullian (second and third centuries CE), and occurs very frequently in St. Augustine’s works, especially in his sermons as priest