Emmaus; ʻImwas (Nicopolis) - North Church

Inscription number: 
2
Selected bibliography: 
166-167, fig. 77 (dr.) (ed. pr.)
53-54, no. 346.8
63, no. 79
Abbreviation for Journals and Series
Epigraphical corpora: 

SEG 8 (1937): 156

CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3085 (dr.)

Location: 

In the mosaic pavement at the threshold of the south aisle, between the basilica and baptistery.

Physical description : 

Damaged three-line mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata divided by rows of tesserae.

Meas.: h 0.45, w 1.12 m (without ansae).

Text: 

Suggested reading:

      [ - - - - ]

      [- - Ἰ]ωάννου̣ κ̣(αὶ) [- - - ]ȣ̣

      ἐ(κ)κοδικ(ίλλων) ἐγέν(ετο) κ(αὶ) ἐψηφώ(θη).

Translation: 

Suggested translation:

[?By the efforts of - - - and I]oannes and [ - -] former a codicillis, (this) was built and paved with mosaic.

Apparatus: 

Ll.2-3  Ο̣|ΕΚ̣ΟΔΙ κ(αὶ) ἐγέν(ετο) κ(αὶ) ἐψηφώ(θη) Hondius (SEG),  Ο|ΕΚΟΔΙΚ(ων) ἐγέν(ετο) κ(αὶ) ἑ ψήφω(σις) Ameling (CIIP).

Summary: 

Extensively damaged building inscription within a tabula ansata at the threshold of the south aisle.

Contents
Actions: 
built, erected/was built, was erected
was paved with mosaic
Personal names: 
Ioannes
Professions: 
codicillis
Epigraphical Abbreviations: 
stigma, Κ̷ for κ(αί), ΟΥ in ligature