Description: Crypt, north side, next to last capital. Capital is 35 x 29 cm. Height of 'E' in dedicacio = 3cm. Dates to second half of the eleventh century.
Reference: The formula for consecrated altars is well known for this period. The use of the term dedicacio for an altar consecration is not unusual. The most common nouns are consecratio, or consecrare sacrare, however a third of the cases use the words Dedicatio, dedicare or DICARE.
Saint-Gervais de Vilhosc was an Augustinian priory. Guy Barruol dates the inscription to the second part of the eleventh century.
Face:
VII KALENDAS MAR[CII]
DEDICACIO. …]
ALTARIA . SANCTI
SEPULCRI.
ET SANCTI BER[…]
7 Kalends of March
The altar is dedicated to the blessed sepulcher and St Ber…