(ed. pr.) (non vidimus) | |
74 (ph.) | |
171-172, no. 867 (c) |
CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3213 (ph.)
Pres. loc.: Museum of the Greek Patriarchate, Jerusalem.
Lamp made of bronze with openings for eleven wicks. The lower part bearing the inscription (c) is formed as a cross; the upper part is formed as a circle [with inscription (b) running around its edge] with a cross in its middle; on the arms of the cross there are letters (a), one on each arm, with the omega at the centre.
(a) Φῶς | Ζωή
(b) ☩ Κ(ύρι)ε, φύλαξον τοὺς δια{ΙΑ}κονοῦντας μετὰ το͂ν ἀλόγον τοῦ Σπιλέου τοῦ ἀμβᾶ Σάβα.
(c) ☩ Ὑπὲρ σωτηρή-
ας καὶ ἀντηλίμ-
ψεος Ζαχαρήου τοῦ Σ ἱγου-
μένου (καὶ) Σισινίου τοῦ διακώνου.
(a) Light. Life.
(b) Lord, preserve those ministering together with the beasts of burden (of the monastery) of the cave of the Father Sabas.
(c) For the salvation and the succor of the … Superior Zacharias and the Deacon Sisinius.
(CIIP)
(c) ll.3f.: τοῦ ὁσίου | ἡγουμένου Meimaris.
Bronze lamp with a Christian acclamation, invocation of the Lord, and a dedicatory inscription of abbot Zacharias and deacon Sisinius.