Khan el-Ahmar - EUTHYMIUS

Church/Monastery name: 
Khan el-Ahmar - EUTHYMIUS
Inscription number: 
8
Selected bibliography: 
203
428, 491, fig. 130 (ph.)
Abbreviation for Journals and Series
Epigraphical corpora: 

CIIP IV.1 (2018): 3135 (ph.) (ed. pr.)

Inscription type: 
epitaph
Location: 

Findspot: “A fragment ... found in the debris outside the east wall of the church, proved to fit on two other fragments which had been plastered over and used as a ledge in a peculair niche in the mediaeval vault east of the tomb-block” (Chitty).

Pres. loc.: Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem, inv. no. 1942-89. Autopsy: 1 June 2014 (Werner Eck).

Physical description : 

Three marble fragments together preserving the lower edge of the stone; the back is left unfinished.

Meas.: h 19.5, w 18.5, d 3 cm; letters 3.5-4 cm.

Text: 

[☩Θε]οδό[ρου]

χαρτου[λαρίο-]

υ Σ(ι)μη[ῶνος]

ὑοῦ.

Translation: 

(Tomb) of Theodorus the chartularius son of Simeon.

Apparatus: 

L.4: ΥΟΥ Di Segni,  ΥΟΧ Ameling (CIIP).

Commentary: 

W. Ameling (CIIP) read the last surviving letter as chi, but its would-be lower right leg is shorter than the lower left and its tip is in fact a hole in the stone surface, making it more likely that it is in fact a mismanaged upsilon, spelling ὑοῦ for υἱοῦ, a common spelling in Byzantine Palestine.

Summary: 

Three small fragments of an epitaph (?) of Theodorus (?) the chartularius, found in the debris or used as a ledge.

Contents
Personal names: 
Simeon, Theodorus (?)
Professions: 
chartularius
Kinship terms: 
son