65n2 | |
49 (ed. pr.) |
SEG 8 (1937): 8
Not specified. Saarisalo mentions that "the owner of the house told me, that the stone [i.e. Inscription no. 1] was found in the yard together with another larger stone 'of two man's height in length' with an inscription, but it was too heavy to be taken up and so they covered it again with earth", which might refer to the presenet inscription. As Alt gives no further details as to the location of the stone, it is impossible to assert whether the two lintels come from the same church. Furthermore, as the formula of the Holy Trinity is merely conjectural, and ΕΠ not a wholly satisfactory abbreviation for ἐπίσκοπος, this second lintel might not have belonged to any church at all.
A basalistic stone broken on both sides, identified by Alt as the right half of a door-lintel similar in size to Inscription 1, but with a completely different arrangement of lines. When he saw it, it was 76 cm in high and 65-70 cm in breadth, the first line 28 cm above the second, and the second 3 cm above the third. Letters 13 cm high in the first line and 10 cm in the second and third lines. No photo or drawing available.
[ - - τοῦ ἁ]γίου Π[ - - ]
[ - - Ἰωάν]νου(?) ἐπ(ισκόπου?) κ(αὶ) Ἰωάνν[ου]
[ - - ]ίου δομ(εστικοῦ) [ - - ]
... of saint P... of John(?) the bishop(?) and John ... the domestikos ...
L.1 π(νεύματος) Alt; l.2 [ - - Ἰωάν]νου(?) ἐπ(ισκόπου) κ(αὶ) Thomsen (apud SEG), [ - - ]νου ἔ(τους) πʹ (καὶ) Alt.
Fragmentary three-line building (?) inscription of John the bishop (?) on a broken door-lintel of basalistic stone.
Following Alt's interpretation [- -Ἁ]γίου Π(νεύματος), "of the Holy Ghost", Segre (apud SEG) suggested the formula [ἐν ὀνόματι Πατρὸς (καὶ) Υἱοῦ (καὶ) Ἁ]γίου Π(νεύματος), "in the name of the Father (and) the Son (and) the Holy Ghost", comparing it to a mosaic from Scythopolis (SEG 8:39); the surviving letters, however, may very well stand for any personal name of a saint beginning with "P". The reading ἐπ(ισκόπου) seems likewise extremely tentative, as ΕΠ alone would be a very unusual abbreviation. A domestikos is a Palace official (Lampe, Patristic Lexicon, s.v.).