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Architecture and élite identity in late antique Rome: appropriating the past at Sant'Andrea Catabarbara1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2013

Gregor Kalas
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Abstract

The conversion of a fourth-century secular basilica into the church of Sant'Andrea Catabarbara in Rome during the 470s invites a discussion of how architectural adaptation contributed to the identity of its restorer, Valila. More than a century after the praetorian prefect of Italy, Junius Bassus, founded the basilica in 331, a Goth named Valila, belonging to the senatorial aristocracy, bequeathed the structure to Pope Simplicius (468–83). References to Valila's last will in the church's dedicatory inscription were inserted directly above Junius Bassus's original donation inscription, inviting reflections upon the transmission of élite status from one individual to another. The particularities of Valila's legacy as a testator, as indicated in the references to his will in the Sant'Andrea Catabarbara inscription and confirmed by a charter he wrote to support a church near Tivoli, suggest that he sought to control his lasting memory through patronage. Valila's concern for a posthumous status provides a context for interpreting the interior of the Roman church. Juxtaposed to the church's fifth-century apse mosaic were opus sectile panels depicting Junius Bassus, together with scenes of an Apollonian tripod and an illustration of the exposed body of Hylas raped by two nymphs originating from the earliest phase of the basilica. The article proposes that Valila nuanced his élite identity by preserving the fourth-century images and thereby hinted that preservation fostered both the accretion of physical layers and the accrual of multiple identities by a Gothic aristocrat in Rome.

La conversione di una basilica secolare del IV secolo nella chiesa di Sant'Andrea Catabarbara a Roma negli anni intorno al 470 invita a una discussione su come gli adattamenti architettonici contribuirono all'identità del suo restauratore Valila. Più di un secolo dopo che il pretoriano prefetto d'Italia, Junius Bassus, fondò la basilica nel 331, un goto di nome Valila, appartenente all'aristocrazia senatoria, lasciò in eredità la struttura a Papa Simplicius (468–83). Riferimenti alle ultime volontà di Valila nell'iscrizione dedicatoria della chiesa furono inseriti direttamente sopra l'iscrizione originale della donazione di Junius Bassus, invitando ad una riflessione sulla trasmissione dello stato elitario da un individuo a un altro. La particolarità del lascito di Valila come testatore, come indicato nei riferimenti alla sua volontà nell'iscrizione di Sant'Andrea Catabarbara e confermata da una carta che egli scrisse per supportare una chiesa vicino Tivoli, suggerisce che egli cercava di controllare che la sua memoria fosse duratura attraverso l'esercizio del patronato. La concezione di Valila per uno status postumo fornisce un contesto per l'interpretazione dell'interno della chiesa romana. Giustapposti al mosaico absidale della chiesa del V secolo erano pannelli in opus sectile rappresentanti Junius Bassus, insieme con scene di un tripode apollineo e un'illustrazione del corpo esposto di Hylas rapito da due ninfe originate dalla fase più antica della basilica. Nell'articolo si propone che Valila sfumò la sua identità elitaria, preservando le immagini di IV secolo in modo da insinuare che la conservazione favoriva sia la crescita degli strati fisici sia l'accumulo delle molteplici identità di un aristocratico goto a Roma.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 81 , October 2013 , pp. 279 - 302
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The author thanks Dorothy Metzger Habel and Julian Hendrix for their insightful comments on drafts of this article. The text also profited from helpful suggestions provided by the anonymous reviewers for Papers of the British School at Rome and the members of the Late Antique Seminar at the University of Tennessee, including Thomas Heffernan, Michael Kulikowski, Jacob Latham and Tina Shepardson. Maura Lafferty generously shared her extensive knowledge of Latin terminology.

Abbreviations:CIL

T. Mommsen et al. (eds), Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin, 1863–present).

MGH

Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

ICUR

G.B. de Rossi and G. Gatti (eds), Inscriptiones Christianae Urbis Romae Septimo Saeculo Antiquiores, 2 vols (Rome, 1857–1915).

ILCV

E. Diehl (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres, 3 vols (Berlin, 1961).

PLRE

J.R. Martindale (ed.), Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1971–92).

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38 ILCV, 1785: HAEC TIBI MENS VALILAE DEVOVIT PRAEDIA CHRISTE/ CUI TESTATOR OPES DETULIT IPSE SUAS./ SIMPLICIUS QU(a)E PAPA SACRIS CAELESTIBUS APTANS/ EFFECIT VERE MUNERIS ESSE TUI./ ET QUOD APOSTOLICI DEESSENT LIMINA NOBIS/ MARTIRIS ANDREAE NOMINE COMPOSUIT./ UTITUR HAEC HERES TITULIS ECCLESIA IUSTIS/ SUCCEDENSQ(ue) DOMO MYSTICA IURA LOCAT./ PLEBS DEVOTA VENI, PERQ(ue) HAEC COMMERCIA DISCE/ TERRENO CENSU REGNA SUPERNA PETI. The now-lost inscription was recorded by Philipp de Winghe in a manuscript in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Vat. Lat. 10545, fol. 227v. The author thanks Maura Lafferty for generous assistance with the translation.

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