Khirbet ed Deir - Severianus

Church/Monastery name: 
Khirbet ed Deir - Severianus
Inscription number: 
1
Selected bibliography: 
368-373, no. 1 (ph.) (ed. pr.)
97-98, no. 1 (ph.)
51, no. 61
Abbreviation for Journals and Series
Epigraphical corpora: 

SEG 37 (1987): 1493; 49 (1999): 2067

CIIP IV.2 (2018): 3818 (ph.)

Inscription type: 
invocation/prayer
quotation
Location: 

In the mosaic carpet of the prayer hall of the Cave Church, near the carpet's eastern border.

Physical description : 

Three-line inscription within a tabula ansata (30 x 30 cm). Inscription 270 cm long; letters ca. 7 cm high. Lines of script separated by yellow strips (1 cm wide). Text begins and ends with florets. Horizonal stroke above sacred name.

Text: 

(floret) Μνήσθητι ἡμῶν Κ(ύρι)ε ἐν τῇ εὐδοκίᾳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου

ἐπισκ[έ]ψαι ἡμᾶς ἐν τῷ σωτηρίῳ σου τοῦ ἰδ[ε]ῖν

έν [τ]ῇ χρηστότητι τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν σου. 
(floret)

Translation: 

Remember us, O Lord, with the favor thou has to thy people; visit us with thy salvation, that we may behold the good of thine elect.

Commentary: 

This is not a commonly quoted verse from Psalms (for another example, see ILGS, no. 1522). It is likely that τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν, "the elect," was understood to refer to the monastic community itself.

Date: 
late 5th - early 6th cent.
Summary: 

Psalm quotation within a tabula ansata, in the mosaic carpet of the prayer hall.

Contents
Epigraphical formulae: 
Lord/Christ, remember...
Citations from LXX / NT: 
Ps. 105 (106):4-5
Epigraphical Abbreviations: 
horizontal stroke over nomen sacrum