Ὅσιος καὶ ἄμεμπτος : portraits de jeunes défunts en ṣaddîqîm dans deux épitaphes d’enfants des catacombes juives romaines de Vigna Randanini

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse two epithets, ὅσιος and ἄμεμπτος, which appear in two children’s epitaphs from the Jewish catacombs of Vigna Randanini in Rome, in order to determine how the Septuagint, and more generally Biblical traditions and figures, as well as Graeco-Roman patterns may have influenced the way both children were depicted by the sponsors of those inscriptions and the way these portraits of two children reveal the environment in which Jewish communities of Rome developped and their dual cultural identity as well.