In margine ad IG XIV2: note su epigrafi greche di cristiani a Roma in età precostantiniana

In considering the very special attention that Denis Feissel consacred to the Greek epigraphy domain along his entire life as a scholar, the paper has the aim to take a glance about the most important dossier of Early Christian epigraphy, in Rome, assuming this specific point of view about it. The Greek (intended both as writing and as language) appears very relevant for the Early Christian communities, especially in its firts phase before Constantine. By recent data from the Epigraphic Database Bari (EDB) and by carefully chosen examples among the first inscriptions by Christians in Rome, the article has the aim to update and to collect in a hopefully coherent unitary framework some of the results of the past enquiries by the author himself in regard of the topic: firstly, about the presence of Greek itself in the dossier as a whole; but also about the peculiar ‘mixed language’ - by combining texts with Greek letters or monograms with images - and about the various phenomena of compresence and interaction of Greek and Latin (cfr. Felle 1999; Felle 2007; Felle 2018). The aimed goal is to offer a first general contribute to the study of the Early Christian inscriptions in Greek from Rome that will be included in the planned new edition of IG XIV.