![]() ![]() 3 Surprisingly, doorkeepers, together with lectors and exorcists, have received little fresh systematic treatment since Henri Leclercq’s articles in the Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie. 1 Daniel Van Slyke has recently provided a comprehensive survey of the development of the office of acolyte, 2 and Kaija Ravolainen has completed a lengthy study of the office and role of cantors. Reynolds, among his extensive studies of the early medieval clergy, noted how even the station of subdeacons was contested. Other minor orders have received detailed discussions of their development, ordination, status, and duties. The minor orders occupy a strange position in the history of the development of the clerical orders on the one hand, they were essential staging posts on the way to the higher offices, but on the other, their lowly status meant that they were rarely the focus of the early medieval sources from which that history is constructed. If the doorkeepers had not been included in these, then one wonders if the office would have developed, even if the original functions of looking after church property obviously remained. That it became the first step in the cursus is due mainly to the dominant influence of three sources deemed to be authoritative: the Statuta ecclesiae antiqua, De septem ordinibus ecclesiae, and certain writings of Isidore of Seville. Gathering together the scattered evidence for Gaul, Spain, and Italy merely exacerbates the confused situation, even within regions. The ambiguities attached to the office relate to the name of the office, where (and indeed whether) it was situated in the clerical cursus, and what the range was of presumed actual and symbolic duties. 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.The evidence presented here from the late fourth century to the eighth century shows that, although the functions associated with someone charged with responsibility for the doors and by extension the church building were required, the development of a specific office that would be institutionally and ritually recognized was not uniformly accepted. 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. 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. the ostiaries (porters) in the Salonitan early Christian church. 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. 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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