Jabaliyah; el-Mkheitim - Church

Church/Monastery name:

Inscription number:

Selected bibliography:

Piccirillo, M. and Alliata, E., 1999	209, pl. XI (ph.)
Saliou, C., 2000	397-398, no. 6, pl. III.b (ph.) (ed. pr.)
Feissel, D. and Gatier, P.-L., 2001	584, no. 502 (Feissel)
Madden, A. M., 2014	66, no. 81

Abbreviation for Journals and Series

Epigraphical corpora:

SEG 50 (2000): 1485

CIIP III (2014): 2448 (dr.)

Inscription type:

building

Location:

At the eastern end of the central pictorial panel in the central mosaic carpet of the diaconicon (Locus 8).

Physical description :

Nine-line mosaic inscription within a rectangular frame. The letters are made of red tesserae on a white background.

Meas.: letters 6-6.4 cm.

Text:

Ἐπὶ τοῦ

θεωφι˹λ˺ι-

στάτου

4 καὶ ἁγι-

ωτάτου

ἐπισκόπου

ἡμο͂ν Μαρ-

8 κιανοῦ, ϙφ´

ἔτους ΦΕ.

Translation:

Under our most God-loving and most holy bishop Marcianus, year 590. (CIIP)

Commentary:

Year 590 (era of Gaza) = 530 AD. Saliou discusses the possibility to read the koppa in l.8 as a stigma, giving 446 AD, but this would not suit the known time of the bishophric of Marcianus. The last two letters of the inscription are enigmatic: perhaps a month name (February), but similar abbreviations (without the usual ἐν μηνί) are unattested, and ἔτους φε´, i. e. year 505 (445 AD) seems impossible.

Given date:

year

Date:

530 AD

Summary:

Building inscription within a rectangular frame, in the central mosaic carpet of the diaconicon, 530 AD.

Contents

Ecclesiastical titles:

bishop

Epithets of clergy/monks:

God-loving (theophiles)

most holy (hagiotatos)

Personal names:

Marcianus