Nikos Tsivikis. "Christian inscriptions from a third and fourth-century house church at Messene (Peloponnese)." The Journal of Epigraphic Studies, volume 5 (2022).

The aim of this study is to examine in detail and expand the discussion on two inscriptions from a recently excavated Late Roman domus dating to the third and fourth century a.d. at Messene in southwest Peloponnese. The inscriptions were set in the mosaic floors of the central hall of the domus during extensive Late Roman remodelling of the pre-existing structure. By analysing the nscriptions’ text and archaeology we are able to provide further evidence on the Christian and public character of the domus, that probably functioned as an assembly hall for the early Christian community of the city, a house church or a domus ecclesiae. The building and its inscriptions constitute a find of paramount importance for early Christian church architecture, one of a very small number of excavated house churches known to us from this period, providing a link of continuity between pre-Constantinian and Constantinian Christian worship.