Church/Monastery name:
Ḥorvat Beer Shem'a; Birsama - St. Stephanos
Inscription number:
4
Selected bibliography:
78*, no. 4, fig. 6 (ph.) (ed. pr.) | |
597-598, no. 659 (Feissel) | |
44, no. 49 |
Epigraphical corpora:
AE 1996: 1567
SEG 46 (1996): 2007
Inscription type:
commemorative
invocation/prayer
Location:
In the mosaic pavement on the threshold of one of the side rooms in the church complex.
Physical description :
Damaged four-line (?) mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata. Only the first three lines are preserved.
Text:
Μνήσθητι, Κ(ύρι)ε, Βίκτωρ
τὸν κελαρίτην
καὶ Στέφανον τὸν
[ἱερέα].
Translation:
O Lord, remeber Victor, the storekeeper and Stephanos the (priest?). (Tzaferis)
Apparatus:
L.4 δ̣ι̣ά̣[κονα ?- -] Bingen apud SEG.
Summary:
Partial four-line mosaic inscription within a tabula ansata, on the threshold of one of the side rooms.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum