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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA - Issue no. 4 / 2010  
         
  Article:   NOTES ON CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. 8A. COMMENTARIES ON A SILVER WEDDING RING WHICH WAS DISCOVERED AT DUROSTORUM (MOESIA SECUNDA).

Authors:  NICOLAE GUDEA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Notes on Christian Archaeology. 8a. Commentaries on a Silver Wedding Ring which was discovered at Durostorum (Moesia Secunda). From the neighbourhood of the 5th–6th century late Roman or Protobyzantine cemetery of Durostorum (Moesia Secunda) three rings proceeded illustrated in the monograph of the old town (R. Ivanov, G. Atanasov, P. Donevski, Istoria na Silistra. I. Anticniat Durostorum. Silistra-Sofi a 2006). On the pages 352–353 are shortly mentioned: a ring with a monogram, read Antonius; a silver ring with a cross and an incised inscription + ME – VG +, for which two solutions were proposed: either + MENG(es), or MENAC; a ring with the name + AZARIA, letters in relief. The author of the present article (N. Gudea) taking a special interest in ring no. 2 on page 353, fi g. 23 = Taf. IX.3, suggests another destination for the ring and gives another reading of the text: the ring (page 353, fi g. 23 = Taf. IX.3) after its look and form seems to be a wedding ring, its chaton being oval and fl at; the inscription made with incised letters, the writing going from left to right; the text is preceded by a Greek cross, symbolizing the name and the person of Jesus Christ, seemingly a congratulatory formula; the proposed reading would be as follows: + (ex theou) ME(ter) VG(ia); translation: from God’s mother good health.

Keywords: Durostorum, Moesia Secunda, weding ring, early byzantine, V–VIth centuries 		 
         
     
         
         
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