Word: filumena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender...