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122: 25: 301: 285: 206:. Bassus, as the inscription on the sarcophagus tells us, converted to Christianity shortly before his death – perhaps on his deathbed. Many still believed, like 338: 42: 228: 265: 392: 89: 331: 61: 108: 68: 382: 367: 46: 75: 324: 176: 125: 372: 57: 210:, that it was not possible to be an emperor and a Christian, which also went for the highest officials like Bassus. 121: 387: 289: 35: 232: 190:
Junius Bassus was an important figure, a senator who was in charge of the government of the capital as
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when he died at the age of 42 in 359. His father had been
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Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
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praetorian prefect
Junius Annius Bassus
vir clarissimus
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praefectus urbi
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
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praefectus urbi
Praetorian prefect
Constantius II
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The Iconography of the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus: Neofitus Iit Ad Deum

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