The aim of this work is, along with the publication of these fragments, to make a comparison with the other epigraphic monuments and to expand our current knowledge about the service of ostiarius in the early Christian church. The sarcophagus shows several interesting features which include the Vulgar Latin text, some special characters, but also the fact that the sarcophagus itself was originally made in 3rd (or perhaps late 2nd) century and remodelled in 5th century. These men were probably buried in a span of a year or two, which is concluded by partially preserved mention of the indictions. ostiarius - the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church. From this word ostiarius are derived the words. An ostiarius, a Latin word sometimes anglicized as ostiary but often literally translated as porter or doorman, originally was a servant or guard posted at the entrance of a building. One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church a porter. the ostiaries (porters) in the Salonitan early Christian church. They arranged catechumens in their places, announced the hours of service, and had charge of the church. Borrowed from Latin ostirius, from ostium (door, entrance). From the other inscription, which commemorated the person later deceased, we know that his name was Anastasius. The inscription on the central field belonged to an unknown person who was buried the first in the sarcophagus. The fragments bear two inscriptions from which reads that in the sarcophagus were buried two persons. As stonemason workshops during Late Antiquity were primarily directed towards the demand generated by the church in order to secure their own existence, their connection with the church centres may be rightfully presumed.In the depot of the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split are being kept two fragments of the sarcophagus which were found 85 years ago, during the archaeological excavations in Solin on a site called Šuplja crkva. Spatial grouping of products of particular workshops greatly correspond to the supposed territorial organization of the church under the jurisdiction of the Salonitan metropolis. By mapping particular groups of monuments, certain regularity may be noticed within their spatial grouping. the development of the shape during time, but also, the differences may not have been conditioned chronologically, but spatially. Partly, the differences are undoubtedly the result of the transformation i.e. Distinct differences between these groups are evident in the shape of the elements, the way they were made, as well as in the choice and in the ways of composing decorative motives on them. Several groups of monuments, recognizable within the corpus of architectural decoration and church furnishing of the Early Christian churches in area of the province of Dalmatia, are obviously the result of the existence of a larger number of workshop centres in this area. These men were probably buried in a span of a year or two, which is concluded by partially preserved mention of the indictions. the ostiaries (porters) in the Salonitan early Christian church. In the depot of the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split are being kept two fragments of the sarcophagus which were found 85 years ago, during the archaeological excavations in Solin on a site called Šuplja crkva.
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