Church/Monastery name:
Ḥura; Ḥorvat Ḥura; Khirbet Ḥura - Monastery
Inscription number:
2
Selected bibliography:
figs. 3, 6 (phs.) (Y. Ustinova) | |
115 (ph.) (Y. Ustinova) (in Hebrew) |
Epigraphical corpora:
SEG 65 (2015): 1767 (ed. pr.)
Inscription type:
building
Location:
In the mosaic pavement of the prayer hall.
Physical description :
Three-line mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata.
Text:
☩ Ἐπὶ τῶν θεοφιλ(εστάτων) Ἠλίου κὲ Νόννου κὲ Σελαμῶνος διακόνου
ἐγένετο τὸ ἔργον τοῦτο ⟨κ(αὶ)⟩ ἡ οἰκοδομὴ πᾶσα τοῦ μοναστηρίου
ἐν μηνὶ Δισίου ἰνδ(ικτιῶνος) ὀγδόης ἔτους τῆς πόλ(εως) τοϛʹ· κὲ Βαράχου. (palm)
Translation:
Under the most God-loving Elias and Nonnos and Selamon deacon this work was done, as well as the entire building of the monastery, in the month of Daesius of the eighth indiction, year 376 of the city; also (under) Barachos.
Given date:
year
era
month
indiction
Date:
May/June 575
Summary:
Dated building inscription for the completion of the monastery, within a tabula ansata in the mosaic pavement of the prayer hall, May/June 575.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
small and full stigmas in ll.2-3, ΟΥ in ligature, horizontal stroke for numerals
Daesius of the year 376 of the city ( = Eleutheropolis) corresponds to May-June 575, which fell in the eighth indiction. Note that in l.2 the small stigma precedes rather than follows κ(αί).