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Ad Ursum Pileatum

p544 Article on pp544‑545 of

Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby):
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
London: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Ad Ursum Pileatum: the name of a cemetery on the Via Portuensis where the bodies of SS. Abdon and Sennen were buried (Chron. Min. I.71; LP LXXXII.5). Pope Leo II (682‑684) transferred the bodies of SS. Faustinus, Simplicius and Beatrix from the cemetery of Generosa (also on the Via Portuensis) to a church of S. Paul close to S. Bibiana, not far from the Porta Tiburtina, which he founded (LPD I.361, n9; HCh 415). Here, in the sixteenth century, Bosio (Roma Sotterranea, lib. iii c66, p585) read an inscription, which began as follows, 'anno domini . . . mense Octobris dedicatione(m) huius eccl(esia)e s(an)c(t)or(um) martir(um) Simplicii Faustini et Beatricis ad cimeterium Ursi Pileati Leo papa maxima devotione . . . fecit.' This shows that the name had wrongly been transferred to this district in the Middle Ages and by the topographers of the sixteenth century (cf. CIL VI.3403*). For a statue p545of a bear wearing a helmet, which is said to have been found by Bernini when rebuilding the church of S. Bibiana, see Baldinucci, Vita del Bernini; Adinolfi, Roma nell' età di mezzo, I.282; Arm. 804‑806; T. VI.10).

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