279 | |
64 | |
263 | |
956 | |
120, no. 188 | |
105, no. 144 | |
43-44 (in Hebrew) |
CIIP IV.2 (2018): 3508 (phs.) (ed. pr.)
SEG 64 (2014): 1782
The inscription was set into the white strip surrounding the framed geometric carpet of the nave, at the western side near the main entrance to the basilica church attached to a monastery, southwest of the Hellenistic site.
Pres. loc.: Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IAA inv. no. 1985-832.
Mosaic inscription in black letters on white ground at the edge of a floor with geometric decoration.
πρεσβίαις τ̣[οῦ ἁγίου ἀγγέλου] Μ̣ι̣χ̣α̣ηλος οὗ ἐστιν ὁ οἶκος κύριος ποιμένι
Φλ· Ἱμέ̣[ριον - - - ca. 15-20 - - - κ]αὶ οὐδὲν αὐτὸν ὑστερήσει.
By the intercession of the holy angel Michael, whose house this is, the Lord is the shepherd of Flavius Himerius and he will lack nothing.
Damaged dedicatory mosaic inscription with an invocation of the angel Michael, near the entrance to the church.
1. Previous descriptions have mentioned intercessions of the angel Μιχαηλ (or Γαβριηλ, Kloner in NEAEHL) and a donor Φλ. Ἱμέριος; L. 1 restored after the most recent translation of Kloner and Graicer, ‘By the prayers of the holy angel Michael, your house is erected. God is the shepherd of Flavius Himerius who contributed to the building of this place, and he shall lack nothing’ [rather ‘(...) Michael, whose house (this) is, may the Lord be the shepherd (...),’ Zellmann-Rohrer] || 1/2. cf. Psalm 22(23):1, K., G. [cf. CIIP III 2327b, Zellmann-Rohrer] || 2. ΦΛS Ϊ-, mosaic.