Church/Monastery name:
Jerusalem (Mount of Olives) - Cave of Gethsemane
Inscription number:
3
Selected bibliography:
133, no. 42, fig. 2 (ph.) (ed. pr.) |
Epigraphical corpora:
CIIP I.2 (2012): 904 (ph.)
Inscription type:
commemorative
grafitto
invocation/prayer
Location:
Findspot: On the vault of the Cave of Gethsemane, in the northwestern corner (?).
Pres. loc.: Not found.
Physical description :
Two-line Greek graffito in cursive lettering with some ligatures. Lunate sigma.
Text:
☩ Μνίστιτη (= Μν˹ή˺σ˹θη˺τ˹ι˺) Κ(ύρι)ε
τοῦ δούλου σοῦ Πασίμου (?)
Translation:
Remember, O Lord, your servant Pasimus(?).
Apparatus:
ΠΑΣΜΟΥ Bagatti; possibly ΠΑΣΙΜ[--] with ligature of sigma and iota (from ph.).
Date:
7th/8th cent.
Summary:
Graffito for the memory of Pasimus(?), on the vault of the cave.
Epigraphical Abbreviations:
horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum, ΣΙ (?) in ligature
Bagatti dates the characters to the 7th cent. The graffito was incised on plaster that was twice coated with additional layers, the last time in the 12th cent. Bagatti mentions as parallel for his reading of the name an example from Egypt, Πασμοῦν (SEG 8, 607), but this would not give a nominative Πασμος, as he restores. A more likely reading could be Πασίμ[ου] or Πασιμ[ίου] from Πασήμις or Πασήμιος/Πασίμιος, a common Egyptian name: see P.Stras. 6, 501 l.11; BGU 6, 1315 l.4; 1316 l.6; P.Grenf. 2, 29 r. l.4; IGR 1, 1271; A. Bernard, De Thèbes à Syène, 1989, 24f. no. 10 l.4; SEG 53, 2003. The form Pasimos seems not otherwise attested.