title: [Designation of occupation and proper name--onomastical considerations on the early Christian inscription of Sarmanna medica from Gondorf on the River Mosel].
abstract: Some time ago, the author published some hypotheses regarding the etymological roots of the name Sarmanna which appears in an early Christian epitaph, which may be as old as the 5th century A.D. In this paper, some of these hypotheses will be elaborated upon, based on additional evidence in support of its eastern germanic origin which suggests close semantic links to medica, Sarmanna's profession. This kind of semantic connection seems to be unique among known ancient epitaphs. It thus offers important sociological and historical evidence for processes of acculturation and assimilation also in the medical realm at the transition from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages.
authors.affiliation: ERiemer.JHaas@t-online.de
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haas
mesh_terms: D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D009275:Names; D009790:Occupations; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D009626:Terminology as Topic